Re: Have any method to let FreeBSD with Squid 2.2STABLE5 support unde rscores?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:42:57 +0100

Chris Dillon wrote:

> Uuuhm, since when did underscores become legal in DNS-land? Or are
> some administrators of DNS servers just showing their ignorance? And
> why are they running DNS servers that allow that kind of brokenness at
> all?

If you read the relevant RFCs then the issue is rather clear. Translated
and abbreviated it says:
* DNS clients SHOULD resolve them
* Authorative servers MUST not define such names.

Here we are talking about a DNS client, not server.

/Henrik
Received on Tue Dec 21 1999 - 17:56:38 MST

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