Subject: Re: name service (does anyone else see this?)
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@owl.dol-esa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/1995 10:17:31
>> >> i've tried NetBSD.ORG from some pretty strange places
>> > Do you always use the stUdlY caPs?  Does one have to use the stUdlY
>> > caPs?
>> 
>> One is not supposed to have to; every spec I've ever seen has specced
>> domain names as case-insensitive.  Certainly the DNS works that way.
>> 
>	The DNS is case insensitive, but I believe most old versions of
>	BIND (I would guess even the -current netbsd one) use 
>	case sensitive cache entries (ie if it knows netbsd.org, and you
>	lookup NetBSD.ORG it wont find it in the cache & will have to
>	go find it again. (Probably not directly relevant, but maybe useful
>	to know :)

Could this be the problem?

~Ken