UDP packet/DNS server

Tue Sep 29 05:59:22 UTC 1998

In article <19980928210036.A24460 at qual.net>,
Christopher Neill <chrisn at 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.
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