Allowable characters in hostnames are: a-zA-Z0-9 I think / is also allowable, and there is an RFC on this subject. Go to ftp://nic.ddn.mil/pub/rfc to check. On a side note, some DNS implementations do not adhere to this standard, for instance Lose9[5|8] and other microsuck "products". BIND 8 will not load a zone containing illegal characters. Jamie is absolutely right (suprise!). PS: jamie.. o-line baby.. On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:20:31AM +0900, Tatsuya Kawasaki wrote:
Jamie,
First of, I must correct that for the wild DNS entry, there is a trailing '.' on the real entry.
Having said that.
Two questions. #1 Why Illegal? what is the theory behide it. I don't see the problem?
#2 If I want to pass DNS inquiry to the primary server(ie server that does not allowed ZONE transfer)
I thought for that, all I need to do is to pass NS record to that server.
Any Suggestion?
Tatsuya
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, James Rishaw wrote:
Tatsuya Kawasaki wrote:
xyz.com. IN NS that.host *.xyz.com In NS that.host
Gah!!
Illegal!
Never use "*" in DNS! Just makes /bad things/ happen.
@ IN SOA xyz.com. hostmaster.xyz.com. ( 1998092801 3600 1800 3600000 7200)
ns ns1.xyz.com. ns ns2.xyz.com.
mx 0 mail.xyz.com.
mail a 1.2.3.4 mx 0 mail
.. etc ..
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