Dissecting the source
Cricket Liu
cricket at menandmice.com
Fri Nov 30 03:59:11 UTC 2001
> I may have subscribed to the wrong list. If I have, please feel free to
set
> me on fire.
>
> I have been given a project for an internal application. We are wanting
to
> use BIND to do some interesting things with the hosts that are only within
> our network. (It is not physically connected to the outside Net.) We
want
> to use some special characters in our host names. I have downloaded the
> source and I have looked through a lot of the header files and I thought
> maybe someone here could point me in the general direction of which part
of
> the source would expose the host name checking. Basically, I want to
allow
> for special characters not normally allowed in DNS like chevrons and the
> like.
Can't you just turn off name checking using the check-names
substatement? For example,
options {
check-names master ignore;
check-names slave ignore;
check-names response ignore;
};
cricket
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