On 1/8/07, Todd Littlefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I remember correctly, underscores are not allowed in names. Only a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen character are acceptable.
Right. Internet names should contain only those characters, and begin and end with a letter or number (dashes in the middle only). Originally, they had to begin with a letter, but then some jerk founded a major network company called "3Com". ;-)
I can't quote the RFC, but someone here probably can ;-)
RFC-1123, "Requirements for Internet Hosts", which Incorporated RFC-952, "DoD Internet host table specification", by reference. Yes, I had to look that up. :) I remembered the title of the first one and was able to Google it. It's interesting to note that, as far as the DNS protocol is concerned, labels (the parts between dots) can contain any character except the dot and NUL. The restrictions were put in place to make the Internet more friendly to various systems. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/