Spaces in hostnames?

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 9. August 2006 08:49:05 -0500 Barry Finkel 
<b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:

>> 'if the computer hostname contains a space, replace it with a `_`
>> character?'
>>
>> or if there's a space in the hostname, don't assign an ip address?
>
> In DNS an underscore character is not legal in a hostname.

That hasn't been true for a long time:

<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2181.html>

Check section 11.
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