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

[Martin Pool]

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On 13 Mar 2001, Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au> wrote:

> 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.

In DNS?  Ask hostmaster at 3com.com.

I seem to recall the original standard said they were not, but then it
changed.

-- 
Martin Pool


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