Sporadic resolution problems

[Matthew Marshall]

Matthew Hoskison wrote:

>>You have a number of "illegal hostnames" , which might add to the confusion.
>>
>>dld_homepage.room41.com. 
>>jada_leaine.room41.com. 
>>wd_april.room41.com. 
>>wd_bitchit.room41.com.
>>
>>
>>
>>Except for that remark it _should_ work ok.
>>    
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>
>Strangely enough, it's not those domains causing the problem. All the external
>diagnostic tools I've checked (dnsreport, dnsstuff, etc) show nothing that
>would prevent the names being resolved. The fact that others *can* successfully
>resolve the names suggests to me the problem lies not at my end, but with their
>ISP's. 
>
>However, I urge anyone to contradict me if there's something at my end that
>I've missed!
>

You may be correct that the problem does not lie on your end.  However, 
having non-RFC compliant names in your DNS might not work with other DNS 
servers.

--Matt