[80937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu May 19 10:09:38 2005
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 21:51:32 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:09:09 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:51:32 -0000, Paul Vixie said:
(yes, I know this probably belongs on dnsops or someplace)
> just because you own an A RR doesn't make you a hostname.
I'll buy that..
> just because you're pointed to by an MX RR doesn't make you a mailname.
But I'm dubious on that one - what legal configs have an MX pointing at a
non-mailname? (Feel free to include the "technically legal but dumb" options
I'm managing to not remember this early in the morning. ;)
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