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Re: [Brett David Rosen] wierd name resolution bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
Mon May 18 17:22:03 1998
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 17:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael L. Barrow" <mlbarrow@netf.org>
Reply-To: michael@MIT.EDU
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>, network@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199805182108.RAA08320@small-gods.MIT.EDU>
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Greg Hudson wrote:
> The problem happens with the native Solaris 2.6 named, which is just
> being picky about the illegal underscore in the aname (whos_there).
> 8.2 will actually be running BIND 8.1.2, which might or might not have
> this problem. At any rate, non-Athena Solaris 2.6 machines will
> continue to dislike that aname.
BIND 8 can be taught to allow illegal names in some fashion via the
named.conf file. I was looking at the docs for Solaris 2.6 named and found
no such configuration setting.
I think we should do whatever the relevant RFCs say to do. I know that
BIND defaults are sometimes wacky, but I don't know how strict they are
compared to what the RFCs say...
Michael L. Barrow / <michael@netf.org>
