Windows 2000 - Active Directory & underscores

[Barry Finkel]

Brian Miller [mailto:bmiller at telstra.com.au] wrote:
>The evil comes in when:
>
>   gc._msdcs.testad-03.dyn-test.in.telstra.com.au. 600 IN A 172.57.38.136
>
>is attempted to be added.  BIND rejects this in /var/adm/messages with a:
>
>   named[5756]: owner name "gc._msdcs.testad-03.dyn-test.in.telstra.com.au"
>      IN (primary) is invalid - rejecting

"Chapman, Matt" <chapmam2 at ocps.k12.fl.us> replied:
>check-names ignore 
>
>in your bind named.conf file should fix it.

My addendum:
I sent a posting on Jan 10 on this topic, and I did not get any 
responses.  Here is part of my posting again --

>In our setup we have a MS Win2k RTM DNS with one forward zone.
>Our other zones are on Solaris BIND 8.2.2-p5 boxes.  When the MS DNS
>zone is transferred to the BIND DNS, I see this message:
>
>     owner name "gc._msdcs.w2k.anl.gov" IN (secondary) is invalid - proceeding anyway
>
>I looked at the zone that was transferred, and that string with the
>underscore appears only twice:
>
>$ORIGIN _tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.gc._msdcs.w2k.anl.gov.
>$ORIGIN _tcp.gc._msdcs.w2k.anl.gov.
>
>And in both of these the string is part of a longer string.  Is BIND
>removing the offending line from the zone being transferred?

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