[80902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed May 18 10:58:30 2005
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Cc: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 19:15:44 +1000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:55:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 19:15:44 +1000, Mark Andrews said:
> Proctor&Gamble.com anyone? That is the logical concusion of
> saying hostnames are arbitary 8 bit strings.
No, that's merely a lemma along the way.
The logical *conclusion* would be "no xn-- in hostnames".
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