A plea to PSI and other clueless DNS Admins
Cricket Liu
cricket at acmebw.com
Fri Oct 8 22:29:01 UTC 1999
> Oh but wait until people start sticking Microsoft ActiveDirectory servers
on
> the Internet. They are loaded with underscores in AD and Microsoft says
> that the underscores are RFC compliant.
Actually, they're not yet RFC-compliant, but they are ID (Internet Draft)
compiant. Read RFC 2052bis, at
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsind-rfc2052bis-02.txt. The
key here is that underscores are only
forbidden in domain names that are used as host names. The owner name
in a SRV record is a service identifier.
> Ofcourse they also say that stub
> records are NOT RFC compliant, hence they won't include them in thier
> implementation of DNS.
I believe you mean stub zones, and again, I think they're right. Stub zones
have been labelled experimental for as long as I can remember, even
though they're very useful. And I've never seen an RFC that formalizes
their definition or use.
cricket
Acme Byte & Wire
cricket at acmebw.com
www.acmebw.com
Attend our next DNS and BIND class! See
www.acmebw.com/training.htm for the
schedule and to register for upcoming
classes.
More information about the bind-users
mailing list