BIND 9, use of underscore with _domainkeys

[Mark Andrews]

> Is there any reason why BIND 9 would have a problem with the following
> request to my DNS provider?
> The provider will not implement the request based on RFC 921 (underscore
> is non-compliant).  Is there a way for BIND 9.3.1 to ignore the
> underscore with the check-names options?

	Your provider is a idiot.  RFC 921 applies to hostnames.
	You are not adding a host so RFC 921 is not applicable.

	Check-names doesn't look at TXT records.

	Check-names looks at the owner names of A, AAAA, MX and PTR
	record.  It also looks at the rdata of records which take
	hostnames (e.g. NS, MX, PTR).

	For PTR only the records where the owner name ends in
	IP6.ARPA, IP6.INT or IN-ADDR.ARPA are examined.

	As for turning it off please read the ARM.
 
> Please create the foo-dk._domainkey.foo.org zone on ns1.foo.edu and
> ns2.foo.edu.
> 
>  
> 
> Use the following values for the SOA record:
> 
>  
> 
>          900       ; refresh
> 
>          600       ; retry
> 
>          86400     ; expire
> 
>          3600      ; default_ttl
> 
>  
> 
> Add a TXT record to this domain with a value of the string shown below
> (copy ALL of it):
> 
>  
> 
> k=rsa;p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDbqsE0mEzPivWx5poKSSF6tUWX
> N6gcga2gSdEw7gW0eD+4G8ipZL5+tfz
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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