I believe they used to be legal but now you should use a '-' dash. It should be somewhere on the BIND site about the change over, it happened from BIND4 to BIND8 I think.
-----Original Message----- From: Christian Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:22 PM To: Red Hat Listserv (E-mail) Subject: Legal Characters in DNS Is an underscore ' _ ' a legal character in a DNS name? Is there an document that someone can point me to with a definitive answer as to which characters are legal and not? Thanks, Christian Christian P. Campbell Systems Engineer Information Technology Department Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc. Desk: (802) 652-9270 Cell: (802) 734-5023 Email: ccampbell at brueggers dot com Registered Linux User #319324 PGP public key available via PGP keyservers or http://www2.brueggers.com/pgp/ccampbell.html "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." -- Linus Torvalds -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list