> We've been using the older version (pre 9.3)
> and the underscore in the hostname in A recored
> like
> this_machine IN A 123.2.234.4
Which are not legal in hostname, see RFC 952.
> is okay.
> We have to upgrade the bind to 9.5
> The new version does not like underscore in the hostname
>
> Is there any way to workaround ?
See check-names.
> (otherwise we have to re-publish the web site URL
> with a new one
> as the user has used the underscore in its web site
> for quite some time)
You should re-publish regardless of whether you ignore the
checks as remote site do implement the checks on queries.
Mark
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