Case sensitivity in DNS?

[Cricket Liu]

Martin, Kevin <kevinm at crt.com> wrote in message
news:<F931488C3634D11180D700A02461E245016C647A at chitmd03.nt.il.nbgfn.com>...
> Is there any case sensitivity in DNS?  Question this because there is a
> vendor application in which the vendor insists that they have a need for
> case sensitivity in the hostname that their product lives on ( seems kind
of
> damn silly if ya ask me but.... ).

Comparisons are done case-insensitively, but case is preserved, so if you
enter a host's name as FooBar, and someone looks up foobar, they should see
it with your capitalization.

cricket

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