Re: [cobalt-users] "Bug" in the Cobalt GUI

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Kris Dahl wrote:

> on 3/10/00 12:51 PM, manitu at manitu@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I just did successfully register the domain "art--artist.com" for a client.
> > Yes, with 2 dashes. After that I wanted to add the virtual site and I could
> > not successfully do that because it claimed that art--artist.com is not a
> > valid domain name...
> 
> It also won't allow you to do domains that start with numbers, I've noticed.

That's cause it's not legal, see rfc 1034....

  domain:  [a-z]<[a-z0-9 or -]>[a-z0-9]

On the other hand rfc2181  notes....

In particular, DNS servers must not
   refuse to serve a zone because it contains labels that might not be
   acceptable to some DNS client programs.  A DNS server may be
   configurable to issue warnings when loading, or even to refuse to
   load, a primary zone containing labels that might be considered
   questionable, however this should not happen by default.

hmmm
> 
> Its not a bind thing or anything, its just a Cobalt GUI issue.  So, the
> workaround it to manually add the records in the /etc/records file (Cobalt's
> dns settings file).  Then 'save DNS changes' from the GUI and it should kick
> in.
> 
> -k
> 
> 
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