under score in the name

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94shj0$18r at pub3.rc.vix.com>, WCUI  <wec839 at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to configure a DNS server on a solaris 7 machine. The bind
>version is 8.2.2-p7. Can I use under score (_) in the domain name? The
>names are transferd from a Windows DNS server. It seems that "_" is ok
>with windows DNS, but with my BIND, all the data files with "_" in the

Those hostnames are a violation of Internet standards, so they're
disallowed by default.  See the "check-names" option in the named.conf file
to override this.

>name are rejected. One more thing, WINS is still not accepted in BIND,
>right?

Right.

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