GitHub user rnpridgeon opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1856
Allow underscores in hostname Technically this does not strictly adhere to RFC-952 however it is valid for domain names, urls and uris so we should loosen the requirements a tad. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rnpridgeon/kafka KAFKA-3719 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1856.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1856 ---- commit 75a4441bdca0b603f1590150040cad82e0dd11f0 Author: rnpridgeon <ryan.n.pridg...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-09-14T19:51:25Z Allow underscores for increased flexibility despite compliance issues with RFC-RFC-952 ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---