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

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Wed, 16 May 2018 05:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] KSK-Sentinel -- "Walkin' on the SUN"?
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Mark Andrews wrote:
> Underscore prefix names are entirely user convention the same way as
> IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA are user convention.  There is NOTHING in
> resolvers or name servers that treat these names as special in any
> sort of way what so ever.
>
>...

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.

"good? bad? i'm the one with the gun." --ash, in _army of darkness_

-- 
P Vixie

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