how to overcome underscore in A record

[Barry Margolin]

In article <g8vlu7$1d3e$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 s11976 at net1.hkbu.edu.hk (PM Wong) wrote:

> We've been using the older version (pre 9.3) 
> and the underscore in the hostname in A recored
> like
> this_machine IN A 123.2.234.4
> 
> is okay.
> We have to upgrade the bind to 9.5
> The new version does not like underscore in the hostname
> 
> Is there any way to workaround ?
> (otherwise we have to re-publish the web site URL
> with a new one 
> as the user has used the underscore in its web site
> for quite some time)

See the check-names option.

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