Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-09 Thread Jose Celestino
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

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-06 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
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? Being strictly pedantic: underscores are allowed in DNS entries but not in hostnames. The relevant document is RFC

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-06 Thread Ian Mortimer
I thought that DNS was getting internationalized and migrating towards unicode Yes. DNS is a general purpose distributed database. There are restrictions on which characters are legal in hostnames but those restrictions don't apply to other DNS record types. -- Ian -- redhat-list

Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread Christian Campbell
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.

RE: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
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

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread mwafkowski
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

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:22:10PM -0400, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: I believe they used to be legal but now you should use a '-' dash. I'm not sure that the underscore was ever legal. However, it was not rejected by the bind software so many people used it anyway. Eventually the software was

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Mortimer
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? Being strictly pedantic: underscores are allowed in DNS entries but not in hostnames. The relevant document is RFC 952.