[H-GEN] Are host names allowed to start with a numeric identifier?

Raymond Smith raymonds at uq.net.au
Mon Mar 12 18:07:54 EST 2001


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Are hostnames allowed to start with numeric identifiers? I am about to
trawl through RFCs but if someone out there can quote the number for me...
well it will help my pedantry.

Cheers,

Raymond

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