Legal characters for BIND are a-z, 0-9 and "-". Nothing else. MRW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Staudenmayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: RE: Legal Characters in DNS
> I believe they used to be legal but now you should use a '-' dash. It should > be somewhere on the BIND site about the change over, it happened from BIND4 > to BIND8 I think. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:22 PM > To: Red Hat Listserv (E-mail) > Subject: Legal Characters in DNS > > > Is an underscore ' _ ' a legal character in a DNS name? Is there an > document that someone can point me to with a definitive answer as to which > characters are legal and not? > > Thanks, > > Christian > > Christian P. Campbell > Systems Engineer > Information Technology Department > Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc. > Desk: (802) 652-9270 > Cell: (802) 734-5023 > Email: ccampbell at brueggers dot com > Registered Linux User #319324 > > PGP public key available via PGP keyservers > or http://www2.brueggers.com/pgp/ccampbell.html > > "We all know Linux is great... > it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." > -- Linus Torvalds > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
