special characters in zone files

[Mark Andrews]

> Thanks for your response.  
> 
> It seems you missed the fact I had already tried to escape with the \.
> 
> RFC1035 did indeed contain an example of using \ to do escaping in the
> SOA but this was in the MNAME even though the comment below it implies
> it would work for the RNAME.  To restate what I previously said using \
> in the RNAME didn't help.  
> 
> My SOA record:
> @               IN SOA  dswadns1.water.com.
> domain\.technician.water.com. (
>                                 2006012801      ; serial
>                                 10800           ; refresh
>                                 3600            ; retry
>                                 604800          ; expire
>                                 86400 )         ; default_ttl
> 
> In the above dswadns1.water.com. is the MNAME and
> domain.technician.water.com is the RNAME.
> 
> However on doing a reverse lookup (this is an arpa in.addr zone file)
> www.dnsstuff.com shows the address as domain at technician.water.com
> instead of domain.technician at water.com. 

	So www.dnsstuff.com is broken.  Report it to them.

	Did you use "dig" to check the SOA record?

> The pointer to specific RFCs was helpful though.  I'm a newbie to DNS
> (inherited existing environment) and at least knowing this was the RNAME
> gave me something more to Google on.  The only direct reference I found
> to it failing was on MS Windows and their fix was an SP.  Since I'm
> running Linux that isn't going to help.   Most other references
> indicated as you did that escaping it with \ should work but it simply
> doesn't seem to.  I couldn't find any example SOAs in which a \ had been
> put in the RNAME.
> 
> Is it possible it's just that www.dnsstuff.com itself isn't properly
> interpreting the RNAME?  Should an external site like that even see the
> full entry rather than interpretation of it by named?  I'd have thought
> it wouldn't. 
> 
> FYI:  Based on the comment mentioned in RFC1035 I did try putting quotes
> around the entire RNAME rather than just the person portion as done
> previously but this again broke the zone file.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:07 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: special characters in zone files
> 
> In article <drdqbv$1j7r$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to use special characters like the dot in the name so
> > that it will properly equate the entry to domain.technician at water.com?
> 
> Special characters can be escaped with '\', so use 
> domain\.technician.water.com.
> 
> > Googling and examining the Bind 9 manual didn't help.   I'm using Bind
> > 9.2.1.
> 
> I'm pretty sure there's an example of it in RFC 1034 or 1035.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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> 
> 
> 
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