bind 8.2.1 and Underscore

[Stanley Liu]

Could Jim or someone post the RFCs that stipulate this please?  I need
some extra weight in the argument to persuade my corporation not to
include underscore in host names (they thought I made it up myself).

Jim Reid wrote:

> >>>>> "Sajith" == Sajith Parambath <sajithp at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>     Sajith> I have a known problem with 8.2.1, have couple of machines
>     Sajith> with _ (underscore), in between the names eg:
>     Sajith> hi_hello.mine.com
>
>     Sajith> Is there any way of going around this limitation.
>
> Yes. Take a look at the html directory in the documentation
> tarball. You'll find a reference there to the allow-names
> substatment. This can be applied to tolerate illegal names.
> Having said that, it's really not a good idea to violate mandatory
> RFCs which define what hostnames are and aren't legal.