I have some information regarding my questions about DNS and some statements
made about DNS on these lists that appear to be incorrect at least in my
searches so far.
RFC1034 Page 11
>The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must
>start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior
>characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some
>restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less.
Ok so now we know that a domain name can't be more than 63 characters, and
it can't start with anything other than a letter according to this RFC.
Unless I am dreaming I seem to recall someone mentioning to me that a domain
could start with a number but according to this it isn't suppose to do that.
RFC 1034 Page 19
>By administrative fiat, we require every zone to be available on at least
>two servers, and many zones have more redundancy than that.
So according to this information if you don't have at least two servers for
a zone/domain then its a violation of the RFC's.
Hmm looks like I get to contact my customer and get them to trade secondary
DNS with someone or myself to be RFC compliant.
Tim Jung
System Admin
Internet Gateway Inc.
tjung@igateway.net
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