Re: [fw-wiz] DNS records for a firewall NAT pool

From: Carson Gaspar (carson_at_taltos.org)
Date: 07/30/03

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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:23:06 -0400

    --On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 18:43:10 -0400 Barney Wolff
    <barney@databus.com> wrote:

    > I'd be very wary of dots in a hostname, and of hostnames beginning
    > with a digit *. FreeBSD's gethostbyname seems to accept a dotted-quad
    > as a name, but I'm not sure that's universal.

    > * Names starting with a digit are valid in dns but not valid hostnames.
    > Some systems care, some don't.

    Hostnames may begin with digits. What makes you think they can't? This was
    fixed eternities ago thanks to 3com.com ;-)

    As for having a hostname be a dotted quad, just be aware what it will
    either be used as an IP address directly (bypassing name services
    entirely), or be looked up as 1.2.3.4.dns-domain-search-path (assuming
    you're using DNS as your host name service), depending on the application
    used, and the resolver library in question. 

    -- 
Carson
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