[PLUG] What is in a Name Server??

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Fri Jun 15 17:04:19 UTC 2007


drew wymore wrote:
> Nope doesn't matter although you can't use underscrores, only dots or
> periods.

Not true, kinda.  Legal characters for a host names are ASCII letters, digits and
the dash character. His ns1_server is not legal but the ns1-server construct would
be.

See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt and
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc952.txt



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