What is the status of "dotted" hostnames - i.e. a period in the hostname portion of a domain name ?
At one point they were allowed, I believe ? What is the latest official RFC ? Thanks... Vyto ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011 3:34 pm Subject: Re: what's a valid domain name? To: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org > In article <mailman.1583.1296410997.555.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > Chris Buxton <chris.p.bux...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Correct, the requirement to start with a letter was removed ages ago. > > Witness 3com.com, which may have been the first. > > Yes, I'm pretty sure they were the impetus for the change, paving the > > way for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM years later. > > -- > Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu > Arlington, MA > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
