Disable Bind's response to version queries and zone xfer requests
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Aug 18 15:03:35 UTC 1999
In article <37BA00B9.4EC9B19E at netscape.net>,
Ronald Procopio <RonaldMarkProcopio at netscape.net> wrote:
>Barry Margolin wrote:
>> BTW, why do you imply that there might be something wrong with the
>> underscore? The only place where underscores aren't allowed is in
>> hostnames, and SECURE_ZONE isn't a hostname. In fact, they probably put
>> the underscore in the name precisely to avoid conflicting with a potential
>> hostname.
>
>Because the syntax is the same has any TXT records would be.
So? TXT records aren't hosts. Hosts are defined by A records. You can
have underscores (and any other character) in the names of TXT records.
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