Multiple Hyphens in Hostname

[Joseph S D Yao]

> The hyphens aren't in a row.  I probably should've made that more
> clear.  The names follow the format, pc-xxxxx-yyy.  I just wanted to
> know whether or not the naming rules will be tripped up by this causing
> a warning message to be logged in the syslog.  If every host is using
> this DNS and every host has a bad name format, my syslog would get out
> of hand very fast (although there are flags that can be set to disable
> these messages).  Besides, I want to follow the standards so that I
> won't get caught in a worse situation should the standards change in a
> way that I will be forced to reconfigure the hostnames on my entire
> network.
> 
> Leon Workman

Hyphens and alphanumerics are fine, in any reasonable configuration
(including the above).  The major "oops" is that underscores ('_') have
never been legal but were missed as errors by earlier versions of BIND.

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