master zone "in-addr.arpa" (IN) rejected due to errors

[Kevin Darcy]

Some versions of BIND 8, and recent versions of BIND 9 attempt to 
enforce hostname standards in addition to DNS standards. You can relax 
that enforcement via the check-names option. See the documentation.

                                                                         
                                                            - Kevin

zoe.goodchild at bexley.gov.uk wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Many thanks for the reply.
>
>this is an edited exceprt from the db.root file. The original file is
>very long and appears to include information about printers and client
>PCs. The PCs start with the BoS_nnnnn. As you can see there are a few
>of the BOS_ entries that you say are not allowed.
>
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>@	IN	SOA	.	root.jupiter.
>(
>		1		; serial number
>		10400		; refresh after 3 hours
>		3600		; retry after 1 hour
>		604800		; expire after 1 week
>		86400	)	; minimum TTL of 1 day
>		IN	NS	.
>                IN      NS      localhost.
>127.0.0.1               IN      PTR     localhost.
>jupiter.	IN	A	172.xx.x.x
>jupiter.	IN	A	172.xx.x.x
>
>BoS_01687.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_01014.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_01691.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_01692.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_PRINTSERV2.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_PRINTSER.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_01690.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>BoS_00993.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
>
>I've edited out the IP's.
>
>- zoe
>
>Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
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>>On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:59:06AM -0700,
>> zoe.goodchild at bexley.gov.uk <zoe.goodchild at bexley.gov.uk> wrote
>> a message of 39 lines which said:
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>>>Sep  2 10:22:31 jupiter named[218]: owner name "BoS_" IN (primary) is
>>>invalid - rejecting
>>>      
>>>
>>It would be interesting to see the file db.root... Remember that the
>>underscore (_) is not valid in host names.
>>    
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