Need input on message : Err/TO and other issues

[Farid Hamjavar]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:06:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov>
> To: Farid Hamjavar <hamjavar at unm.edu>
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Need input on message : Err/TO and other issues
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov>
> > > To: Farid Hamjavar <hamjavar at unm.edu>
> > > Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> > > Subject: Re: Need input on message : Err/TO and other issues
> > > 
> > > You did notice that (a) you originally had a host named
> > > "bff<Control-H><Control-H>" before somebody fixed that [illegal] name,
> > > and (b) your terminal is not wrapping lines, but sticking on the right
> > > margin.  Didn't you?
> > 
> > I posted that coming from dialup. 
> > terminal type setting must have been screwy.
> > But I did not notice anything when I posted it nor
> > did I see the things you said in people's responses.
> > 
> > Farid
> 
> Mark Andrews also commented on this:
> > host name "nff\008\008" IN (response from [192.203.230.10]) is invalid - proceey
> 
> This 80-character line had no wrap, so all of the final characters in
> this message [which might have been "proceeding anyway"] are typed on
> top of each other.  This unreadable part tells you why it proceeded,
> anyway.  ;-)
> 
> In the same line, the name to which it refers have the first three
> letters 'n', 'f', 'f', and the next two are '\008', which is control-H.
> [Sorry, I must have mistyped "nff" as "bff".]  This is not a legal host
> name.
> 

What's correct is correct. Sorry about that.
Farid