check-names error

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cb7vae$fsj$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Mathew Thomas" <mathew.thomas at rmit.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> I am in the process of upgrading all our DNS servers and I believe it is safe 
> to use Bind 9.3.0rc1 in production
> servers. Currently we are running 9.2.3
> 
> Is underscore supported in the new version? I am getting following warning:

No, underscores are not valid in hostnames.  This check has been around 
since BIND 8.

Your subject line mentions "check-names error".  I don't see any errors 
in your log excerpt, just warnings.  Of course, if you *want* errors, 
you can simply change the check-names option from "warn" to "error".

> 
> Jun 22 09:51:34 its-du-ns3 named[25216]: [ID 866145 daemon.warning] zone 
> gm.rmit.edu.au/IN:
> sm_hp_8550.gm.rmit.edu.au/A: bad owner name (check-names)
> Jun 22 09:51:34 its-du-ns3 named[25216]: [ID 866145 daemon.warning] zone 
> gm.rmit.edu.au/IN:
> sm_oce_9300.gm.rmit.edu.au/A: bad owner name (check-names)
> Jun 22 09:51:34 its-du-ns3 named[25216]: [ID 866145 daemon.warning] zone 
> 173.170.131.in-addr.arpa/IN:
> 35.173.170.131.in-addr.arpa/PTR: adc_53_2_HPLj2200.adc.rmit.edu.au: bad name 
> (check-names) 
> 
> Thanks
> Mathew

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