dragonflybsd.org domain back up

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Mar 19 04:38:26 PDT 2007


On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:35:35PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I blew up the dragonflybsd.org domain when I upgraded the box 
>     running the DNS.  The new version of bind disallows certain
>     constructions (domain names with underscores), and as per normal
>     stupidity it decided to stop serving the entire file.

(a) It's an option.
(b) _ is not allowed by the DNS RFCs, any good DNS checker would have
told you.
(c) I think the DragonFly resolver belongs into the category of strict
resolvers as it drops those entries.

Joerg





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