Hyphen in A record
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Aug 18 22:24:57 UTC 2005
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> Hello,
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> There is concern here of names with special characters within them,
> especially the hyphen ( - ). I am curious as the expected support of
> this character in the A record as well as other special characters in
> the future of BIND. Does it appear as if this will be removed?
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> Thank you,
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> Ralph F. Bischof, Jr.
> Any opinion within this communication is not necessarily that of
> NASA.
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'-' has ALWAYS been legal in a hostname. Hostname labels
constsist of LDH (letters digits hyphens). hyphens are not
allowed at the start or end of a label.
See RFC 952 and RFC 1123.
Mark
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