Hi Thierry, On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:00:48PM +0200, Thierry Fournier wrote: > Hi list, > > The name of the "server" directive allows [A-Za-Z0-9_.:-] (see > function invalid_char()). > > The name allowed for the "server-template" directive only allows [A-Za-Z_.-], > the chars [0-9:] disappear. > > This limitation forces the modifications of all the server names which > contains numbers and forces to review the monitoring system. This is not > great. > > It have a good reason to reject chars [0-9:] ? > If it is not a case, I join a patch which fix the syntax for [0-9], not for > ':'
I don't remember any particular reason, though I remember we've had lengthy discussions about this. I'll ask Fred tomorrow if he remembers. I agree that it may be a problem (eg: "dc1_srv" not being accepted is problematic). Willy
