Spaces in hostnames?
Sebastian Hagedorn
Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Wed Aug 9 14:33:09 UTC 2006
--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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