Re: Sprint?

The cause of this is not the OS, per se, its the version of BIND that it incorporates. Recent versions do character checking before accepting the response. This avoids nasty buffer overflows and the like.

yes.

I can sympathize with Sprint's delay since my network has the same problem. On OSen which included this newer version of BIND for which I had source, I had to kinda "break" it to get name resolution until such time as people decide on a new naming schema.

wierd. all you have to say on 4.9.6 is: check-names response ignore whereas on 8.1.1 it's options { check-names response ignore; }; note the ";" in the second example. what part of the source did you have to tweak?