Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
For a special project, I need to be able to create resource records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need to be either (a) literal asterisks or else (b) literal exclamation marks. What's the most proper way to do this? Can I

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi Ronald On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:31:07AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: For a special project, I need to be able to create resource records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need to be either (a) literal asterisks or

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20140927122322.ga4...@totoro.home.mukund.org, Mukund Sivaraman m...@isc.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:31:07AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: For a special project, I need to be able to create resource records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain labels in

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 65455.1411817...@server1.tristatelogic.com, Ronald F. Guilmette writes: For a special project, I need to be able to create resource records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need to be either (a) literal

Re: Putting weird characters into zone files ?

2014-09-27 Thread Tony Finch
Mukund Sivaraman m...@isc.org wrote: BIND will not allow you to use special characters such as '!' in owner names of certain RRs types such as A, MX, etc. as they don't form valid hostnames (see RFCs 1123 and 1912). But you can set the check-names option to relax the restrictions. Tony. --