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Re: [DNSOP] KSK-Sentinel -- "Walkin' on the SUN"?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Wed, 16 May 2018 10:35 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] KSK-Sentinel -- "Walkin' on the SUN"?
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Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote:
>
> i think the ability to log warnings or generate errors if A/AAAA owners or
> MX/NS targets are not RFC952-style "hostnames" (that is, if they have
> underscores in them) in BIND8 and BIND9, is a case of treating such names as
> if they are special.

I think the hostname syntax check is really the other way round: it's
checking that normal names look normal. Underscore isn't special wrt
this check, it's just one of many abnormal cases.

Tony.
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