host name with '_' -> errors

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:56PM +0100, François Chenais wrote:
> Hello
> 
> it seems that bind8.2.2 (8.2.2-P5/slackware 7.1) doesn't accept
> hostname with '_' while bind 4 accept !!
> 
> is there any option to allow this ?

Yes, but since that has always been an illegal character in host names,
perhaps you should consider phasing in legal names.  Early versions of
BIND 4 were extremely permissive, but that was changed to counter some
exploits.

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