Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[Philip Dowie <philip.dowie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Philip,
>
>        What did you search on? I checked the ISC site against oracle and got 
> nothing.
> Not that I'll ever use oracle db's, but it would at least be nice to know what
> in the world oracle and _? has to do with BIND?

Google!  I asked about bind and underscore (the word underscore).
I turned up a couple of forum posts.  Basically, the underscore is an 
un-allowed character, if you follow the specs, but it seems some servers and 
clients allow it anyway.  BIND doesn't by default, hence the option to relax 
the rules.

I think Oracle in there is just a red-herring, because the underscore business 
is really something M$ decided would be a good idea to support Active 
Directory.  (Why they thought they could get away with blatantly violating the 
specifications, well, my best guess:
1) they decide DNS is cool and they'll use it for AD (embrace)
2) they write an implementation of DNS wot does allow the underscore (extend)
3) they expect their modifications will "catch on" and the previous 
restrictions gone (exterminate)

So, in short, I don't think _ has anything to do with oracle unless you put _'s 
un your SIDs, etc.
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