[80951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu May 19 12:08:18 2005
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:03:43 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050519084200.D2239@roble.com>; from Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> on Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:52:56AM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:52:56AM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Most definitely not, and if this were 1985 I'd be {rf}commenting on
> the inadvisability of such hostnames, and those beginning or ending
> with "-", TLD names shorter than 2 or longer than 4 characters,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> spaces in hostnames, [^a-z0-9\\-\\.], and other such marginally
> useful but infinitely problematic features.
I understand your other concerns, there, but TLD length?
To preserve assumptions in old apps?
Cheers,
-- jra
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