BIND 8 does not support host names with underscores. If you still want to have host names with underscores, put them in host file and then, the absolute names may be provided to the dns records.

Anu

On Mon, 12 February 2001, Borgia Joe A Contr AFRL/IFOS wrote:

> 
> 
> Is it possible to have hostnames with underscores in the zone files? I'm
> testing
> 8.2.3, and it seems to be having trouble loading zones with hostnames that
> have underscores. When I take the underscores out, it seems to load okay.
> But domain-wide, I have 287 systems with underscores in the hostname. It
> would
> suck to have to touch all these boxes and change them just to suit 8.2.3. 
> 
> Still...if I have to....<sigh>. It just seems like I'm missing something.
> 
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: Zone "UNITY.RL.AF.MIL" (file
> /usr/local/domain/domain.unity): No de
> fault TTL ($TTL <value>) set, using SOA minimum instead
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: owner name "NOCTEST_180.UNITY.RL.AF.MIL"
> IN (primary) is invalid - 
> rejecting
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:226:
> owner name error
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:226:
> Database error near (A)
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: owner name "NOCTEST_182.UNITY.RL.AF.MIL"
> IN (primary) is invalid - 
> rejecting
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:228:
> owner name error
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:228:
> Database error near (A)
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: owner name "NOCTEST_183.UNITY.RL.AF.MIL"
> IN (primary) is invalid - 
> rejecting
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:230:
> owner name error
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:230:
> Database error near (A)
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: owner name "SANDRA_LEE.UNITY.RL.AF.MIL"
> IN (primary) is invalid - r
> ejecting
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:253:
> owner name error
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: /usr/local/domain/domain.unity:253:
> Database error near (A)
> Feb  9 12:21:32 pinky named[11633]: master zone "UNITY.RL.AF.MIL" (IN)
> rejected due to errors (serial 2
> 001020702


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