special characters in zone files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <drg336$56d$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> My SOA record:
> @               IN SOA  dswadns1.water.com.
> domain\.technician.water.com. (
>                                 2006012801      ; serial
>                                 10800           ; refresh
>                                 3600            ; retry
>                                 604800          ; expire
>                                 86400 )         ; default_ttl
> 
> In the above dswadns1.water.com. is the MNAME and
> domain.technician.water.com is the RNAME.
> 
> However on doing a reverse lookup (this is an arpa in.addr zone file)
> www.dnsstuff.com shows the address as domain at technician.water.com
> instead of domain.technician at water.com. 
....
> 
> Is it possible it's just that www.dnsstuff.com itself isn't properly
> interpreting the RNAME?  Should an external site like that even see the
> full entry rather than interpretation of it by named?  I'd have thought
> it wouldn't. 

That's exactly what I think the problem is.  At some point in the 
process it's probably translating the field into text without proper 
escaping in the internal variable, so it's losing the fact that the 
first "." is literal rather than a label separator.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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