[H-GEN] Allowable chars in a host name?

[Tony Nugent]

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

On Mon Aug 04 2003 at 00:12, Robert Brockway wrote:

> There used to be a restriction on a domainname starting with a numeral.
> I believe this restriction was lifted some years ago (don't haven an rfs
> reference on me), meaning that this is now a valid domainname.  Yes, it is
> a scary world :)

Rumour has (had?) it that it was 3com who lobbied long and hard
about this point...  :)

> Rob

Cheers
Tony

--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/