Mark Andrews writes: > > > > In message <9fc47420fb263da9eda170166fd4d...@cornell.edu>, John Wobus writes: > > Some years ago, I had that issue. The problem was that the > > zone transfer compression mechanism could change the case > > of individual names. This was fixed in some release of bind > > (after 9.2.1, if I remember correctly), and bind release notes > > would pinpoint the exact version with the change. > > You will need BIND 9.4.0 or later for the master. > > 1811. [func] Preserve the case of domain names in rdata during > zone transfers. [RT #13547] > > Or you can specify many-answers as the transfer format > on the master.
Correction one-answer as the transfer format but there is still a small risk if the a compression pointer can be found in the owner name of the record with differing case, > > The problem was that the compression mechanism would compress > > a.example.COM and b.example.com by using a pointer to a single string, > > in one specific instance, "example.COM". When uncompressed > > at at the secondary end, the names came out as a.example.COM and > > b.example.COM. > > > > John Wobus > > Cornell University CIT > > > > > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Ben Croswell wrote: > > > > > I reaching out to the list on what appears to be a very odd issue that = > > > > > happened over the weekend. > > > We had an issue where some internal domains had the TLD capitalized = > > > > > after the zone transfer. > > > i.e. foo.bar.com on the master became foo.bar.COM on the slave. > > > I know that DNS is case insensitive but it caused an issue with apps = > > > > > that were misbehaving. > > > > > > The master is BIND 9.2.1 and the slaves in question are 8.2.3. > > > The master zone has everything lower case, and BIND 9 slaves show them = > > > > > as lower case as well. > > > A manual zone xfer on the 8.2.3 boxes to a different local directory = > > > > > than the actual named directory shows .COM. > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone had experienced an issue like this. > > > > > > And I understand both of those version are ancient and need to be = > > > > > removed=A0 from the environment. > > > > > > -- = > > > > > -Ben Croswell > > > _______________________________________________ > > > bind-users mailing list > > > bind-users@lists.isc.org > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > > _______________________________________________ > > bind-users mailing list > > bind-users@lists.isc.org > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: mark_andr...@isc.org -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: mark_andr...@isc.org _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users