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

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Raymond,

Raymond Smith, on Tuesday, 13 March 2001 9:08 AM,
channelled the following:
>
> 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

I don't know the RFC number, but AFAIK hostmanes, like domain names, are
supposed to start with an alpha.

Regards,
Hilton


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