Looking for RFC

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3874FAD9.88E4F04F at daimlerchrysler.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>Granted, this is a BIND list, but my particular clarification was about the
>relationship between OS concepts ("hostname") and RFC's, rather than between
>BIND and RFC's. My basic point was, if I want to call my machine
>"-@(%AE(*A``SDFN", then the RFC's don't have squat to say about it as long as
>I don't advertise that name in the Internet DNS.

You can call your machine whatever you want.  But if you want to be able to
access it using TCP/IP applications, you have to follow the rules of
TCP/IP.  They apply to the TCP/IP protocols in general, not just the public
Internet.

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