Are underscores no longer supported in Bind 9.4?

Chris Thompson cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Sun Mar 4 21:28:39 UTC 2007


On Mar 3 2007, Barry Margolin wrote:

>In article <esa68j$mfp$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
[...]
>> BIND has flip-flopped over the years on whether it should be in the 
>> business of enforcing *hostname* (as opposed to DNS) standards. Recently 
>> the pendulum has swung back in the direction of "we'll enforce them"
>
>The check-names option has been in BIND since 8.x, I think.  The only 
>flip-flopping, I believe, has been on what the default setting should be.

Actually, although the check-names option was present in BIND 8, it was
entirely missing from BIND 9.x until 9.3. (See entry 1586 in the change log.)

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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk



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