network name 101100010100110.net
James Hess
mysidia at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 02:16:04 UTC 2010
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Day Domes <daydomes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data
> network. I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see
> any issues with this?
The domain-name starts with a digit, which is not really recommended, RFC 1034,
due to the fact a valid actual hostname cannot start with a digit,
and, for example,
some MTAs/MUAs, that comply with earlier versions of standards still in use,
will possibly have a problem sending e-mail to the flat domain, even
if the actual hostname is
something legal such as mail.101100010100110.net.
Which goes back to one of the standard-provided definitions of domain
name syntax used by RFC 821 page 29:
<domain> ::= <element> | <element> "." <domain>
<element> ::= <name> | "#" <number> | "[" <dotnum> "]"
<mailbox> ::= <local-part> "@" <domain>
...
<name> ::= <a> <ldh-str> <let-dig>
...
<a> ::= any one of the 52 alphabetic characters A through Z
in upper case and a through z in lower case
<d> ::= any one of the ten digits 0 through 9
--
-Jh
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