underscores in hostname

[Bjorn Johansson]

In message <CBB6AC9F2470D31181880008C791B16603985CB5 at sgssb41.mindef.nl>,
HAG.Keijzer at mindef.nl writes
>
>Hi there
>
>okay okay okay I know that underscores _ are NOT allowed in hostnames.
>
>However, i'm in an environment with a lot of crap, and tons of names with
>underscores.
>
>I run Bind 8.2.3 on solaris (in lab), and it rejects the hostnames.
>8.1.2 warned but continued.
>
>Is there any solution to stop Bind from rejecting hostnames with _'s?
>I looked through the 8.2.3 docs, but couldn't find anything.
>
>Or is this a 'get the source and modify the parser' action?
>
You can do it by using the check-names ignore command.

Example:

zone "_sites.domain.dom" {
          type master;
          file "primary/db._sites.domain.dom";
          check-names ignore;
          allow-update {
               111.222.333.444;
               127.0.0.1;
          };
};
-- 
Bjorn Johansson