Re: [SLUG] [SLIGHTLY OT] Machine Names

[Peter Rundle]

>Something to keep in mind is that underscore (ie, _ ) is technically not
>a valid character in DNS, and thus should probably be avoided in hostnames.

Not only just technically not valid, if you are using BIND (standard Linux
named) then an underscore in a hostname will cause the name server to become
non-authorative for the zone that the host is in. In technical terms this is
"a bad thing".

Pete


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