Does case matter in the zone file? I was thinking of making all my RR's one case. Thanks for your time. David A. Coursey 843.341.5755 x203 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/attachments/20040116/589c3ed7/attachment.htm>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:34:14AM -0500, David Coursey wrote: | Does case matter in the zone file? I was thinking of making all my RR's | one case. It's not supposed to matter. I make all my RR's lower case. I can query them in any case and get the data. But it does seem to return things in the case I query: dig +norec @209.102.192.74 ipal.net. a dig +norec @209.102.192.74 IpAl.NeT. a dig +norec @209.102.192.74 IPAL.NET. a -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Quoting Phil Howard, on Jan 16, 19:51, in "Re: quick question ..."]> | Does case matter in the zone file? I was thinking of making all my RR's > | one case. > It's not supposed to matter. I make all my RR's lower case. I can query > them in any case and get the data. But it does seem to return things in > the case I query:That's because of: 1. the query itself is first in the answer; 2. the later references point to that because of namecompression. -- ted