Mark Andrews wrote:
Underscore prefix names are entirely user convention the same way as IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA are user convention. There is NOTHING in resolvers or name servers that treat these names as special in any sort of way what so ever. ...
i think the ability to log warnings or generate errors if A/AAAA owners or MX/NS targets are not RFC952-style "hostnames" (that is, if they have underscores in them) in BIND8 and BIND9, is a case of treating such names as if they are special.
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