Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-11 Thread John Wobus
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Thanks guys, sounds like a solution would be to transfer the zone files outside of bind. I'll give some of the suggestions a try. Matt I can't help but be curious. What problem would be solved by transferring the zone files outside of bind? John

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:24:01PM -0800, Matt Rae matt...@gmail.com wrote a message of 54 lines which said: sounds like a solution would be to transfer the zone files outside of bind. The solution to what? There is no problem at all, the files are absolutely identical after the transfer.

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-10 Thread Matt Rae
Thanks guys, sounds like a solution would be to transfer the zone files outside of bind. I'll give some of the suggestions a try. Matt On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:01 PM, John Wobus jw...@cornell.edu wrote: On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns

dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread Matt Rae
Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns server. Dots have historically been used in the hostnames here. The dots cause the resulting zone file from a zone transfer to have $ORIGIN automatically set assuming the dots are indicating a subdomain. Here's an example of what's happening: master zone

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread cindyjohnson1
RFC 952 was the original follow-ons are RFC 1123 and 1178 Unless you write a script to parse your file and queries I know of no way around this. We use hypens instead of dots in our names.Mar 9, 2011 01:10:50 PM, matt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns server. Dots

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are a lot of unfortunate practices one can find in DNS names. I'd personally recommend not doing anything that conflicts with the RFC. At my place of business, we slave a zone from a group that has underscores in the hostnames which is also not

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 3/9/2011 1:09 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns server. Dots have historically been used in the hostnames here. What does the term hostname mean to you? If hostname is defined as the contents of the first label of a dot-delimited DNS name, then dot in hostname

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread Warren Kumari
On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns server. Dots have historically been used in the hostnames here. The dots cause the resulting zone file from a zone transfer to have $ORIGIN automatically set assuming the dots are indicating a subdomain.

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread Phil Mayers
On 03/09/2011 06:09 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns server. Dots have historically been used in the hostnames here. The dots cause the resulting zone file from a zone transfer to have $ORIGIN automatically set assuming the dots are indicating a subdomain. Oh god,

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread John Wobus
On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a slave dns server. Dots have historically been used in the hostnames here. The dots cause the resulting zone file from a zone transfer to have $ORIGIN automatically set assuming the dots are indicating a subdomain.