On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:20:35PM -0400, Bob Harold wrote: > If I (reluctantly) accept that DNS names that are not hostnames can have > underscores in them, why does BIND not have an option to allow that, while > still rejecting invalid hostnames? Or have I missed something?
BIND allows domain names to have underscores. It objects to non-hostnames owning A, AAAA or MX records is all. For example, this is served by BIND: _jabber._tcp.jabber.isc.org. 7126 IN SRV 0 0 5269 sprocket.isc.org. > If someone decides to add that feature, I would really like the option to > only add the underscore to the allowed list, and not any other special > characters, which would break all kinds of things, without adding any real > value. Can I ask what specific problem you're having that would be solved by this? -- Evan Hunt -- [email protected] Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
