underscore in A or PTR records
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Wed Feb 17 17:20:55 UTC 2021
No. The PTR records that map from IP address to hostname enforce the hostname rules.
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Mark Andrews
> On 18 Feb 2021, at 02:20, Sten Carlsen <stenc at s-carlsen.dk> wrote:
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>> On 17 Feb 2021, at 12.34, ONRUBIA AVILES Carlos (CCS/MST) <carlos.onrubia.aviles at proximus.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> Indeed my question was on A record but the issue is on PTR record.
>> I can configure the following line:
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>> _ptr.dekil.nl. 3600 IN PTR _81.99-129-109.adsl-dyn.isp.dekil.nl
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>> It works....we can use "_" in both sides.
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>> But what is strange is that the following configuration do not work:
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>> 9.10.238.195.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN PTR por_tal-bis.skynet.be.
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>> "_" is not allowed
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>> Is it due to extra check by bind when it sees it is an arpa zone so no "_" is allowed?
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> As previously mentioned, the RFCs expressly forbids the "_" in names.
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> I assume that a leading "_" slips past Bind's control because it "could" be part of a valid but at compile time unknown _tcp -like label.
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>> Regards,
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>> Carlos,
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>> Sensitivity: Internal Use Only
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org>
>> Sent: 17 February 2021 10:52
>> To: ONRUBIA AVILES Carlos (CCS/MST) <carlos.onrubia.aviles at proximus.com>
>> Cc: Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org>; bind-users at lists.isc.org
>> Subject: Re: underscore in A or PTR records
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>>>
>>>> On 17. 2. 2021, at 9:50, ONRUBIA AVILES Carlos (CCS/MST) <carlos.onrubia.aviles at proximus.com> wrote:
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>>> The issue we face is that a telecom provider ask us to implement a PTR record with a name like “example_try.net"
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>> You are mixing the two things here. If the provider has asked you to create a PTR record, why do you keep trying to create a forward record? There’s some information missing somewhere.
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>> Ondrej
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