A plea to PSI and other clueless DNS Admins

[Cricket Liu]

> 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

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