[80936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter & Karin Dambier)
Thu May 19 08:04:00 2005
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:00:44 +0200 (MEST)
From: "Peter & Karin Dambier" <peter@peter-dambier.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> --- original message ---
> from: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
> to: nanog@merit.edu
> Re: Underscores in host names
> Datum: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:40:32 +1000 (EST)
>
> Hostnames can't have a dot at the end either. The dot at the
> end is a local resolver indication to not use the search list.
>
/etc/hosts:
217.29.76.4 IT2.MIX-IT.NET IT2.MIX-IT.NET.
Why?
Because programmes like
check_soa from the O'Reilly book "DNS and BIND" or
sendmail
believe it makes sense to force a dot at the end of
every name they look up.
There are nameservers in the root zone file that DNS will
not find. /etc/hosts is the only way to get them.
Dont forget to have both names with and without dot.
That is horrible, but I have to live with it
Regards,
Peter and Karin Dambier
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