Underscores in host names
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Thu May 19 16:03:43 UTC 2005
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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