Multiple Hyphens in Hostname
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Tue Jul 27 18:13:56 UTC 1999
> The hyphens aren't in a row. I probably should've made that more
> clear. The names follow the format, pc-xxxxx-yyy. I just wanted to
> know whether or not the naming rules will be tripped up by this causing
> a warning message to be logged in the syslog. If every host is using
> this DNS and every host has a bad name format, my syslog would get out
> of hand very fast (although there are flags that can be set to disable
> these messages). Besides, I want to follow the standards so that I
> won't get caught in a worse situation should the standards change in a
> way that I will be forced to reconfigure the hostnames on my entire
> network.
>
> Leon Workman
Hyphens and alphanumerics are fine, in any reasonable configuration
(including the above). The major "oops" is that underscores ('_') have
never been legal but were missed as errors by earlier versions of BIND.
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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