Minimum Number of Characters in Host Name?

Lisa Burke lburke at once.com
Tue Mar 13 17:59:38 UTC 2001


Is there a minimum number of characters that a host can be identified by?  I
vaguely remember that a domain name must be at least two characters long,
but I'm not sure if that's an RFC or if that applies also to hosts.

I'd like to name a host with only one character, example:

r.4at1.com

Regards,

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Lisa Burke
Unix Systems Administrator
http://www.once.com
mailto:lburke at once.com
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