[PLUG] What is in a Name Server??

[drew wymore]

On 6/15/07, Michael Rasmussen <mikeraz at patch.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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


Thanks for the tip/clarification :-)