[19853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UDP packet/DNS server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Tue Sep 29 02:08:36 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net>
Cc: Tatsuya Kawasaki <tatsuya@giganet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: 29 Sep 1998 05:59:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: Christopher Neill's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:00:36 -0400"
In article <19980928210036.A24460@qual.net>,
Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net> wrote:
> Allowable characters in hostnames are:
>
> a-zA-Z0-9
>
> I think / is also allowable, and there is an RFC on this subject. Go to
> ftp://nic.ddn.mil/pub/rfc to check.
No it is not. However, hyphens are.
But, the element "*" is a special case, with different semantics to go
with its different syntax.
--
Shields, CrossLink.
