special characters in zone files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <drdqbv$1j7r$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to use special characters like the dot in the name so
> that it will properly equate the entry to domain.technician at water.com?

Special characters can be escaped with '\', so use 
domain\.technician.water.com.

> Googling and examining the Bind 9 manual didn't help.   I'm using Bind
> 9.2.1.

I'm pretty sure there's an example of it in RFC 1034 or 1035.

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