syntax error in MX record

Miek Gieben miekg at atoom.net
Mon Aug 16 18:44:19 UTC 2004


[On 16 Aug, @20:35, Phil wrote in "syntax error in MX record ..."]
> Here's one that worked in NSD 1 but breaks in NSD 2:
> 
> @ 12h IN MX 0 @
> 
> It seems that the check on valid characters for the target host name for
> the MX doesn't include the "@".  I wonder if it works for ".".  I worked
> around this for now.

yep, that doesn't work...

Currently the zone compiler only matches ^@. Matching a lonely @
isn't too hard though (I think). I will post a patch tomorrow (CEST), 

grtz Miek



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