Case sensitivity in DNS?

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Jul 26 22:04:49 UTC 1999


DNS is NOT case sensitive.
If an application expect this, they are going to be hurting.

Michael Voight
Cisco TAC

"Martin, Kevin" wrote:
> 
> 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.... ).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin Martin
> Bank of America - CRT
> Firewall/DNS/SMTP/Network Admin.
> kevinm at crt.com


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