> Yes, don't use check-names or set it to warn. See chapter 06 of the ARM.
>
> Or drop those names (although RFC 2181 allows those in labels, but it
> also makes clear, that not any label must be allowed as a host name).

And herein lies the problem, this version of Bind seems to ignore the check-names option...

options {
        version "REFUSED";
        directory "/var/named";
        check-names master ignore;
...

that _should_ disable named checking the names and therefore refusing to load, should it not?

thanks, jc