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Re: UDP packet/DNS server

  • From: Michael Shields
  • Date: Tue Sep 29 02:14:52 1998

In article <[email protected]>,
Christopher Neill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Allowable characters in hostnames are:
> 
> a-zA-Z0-9
> 
> I think / is also allowable, and there is an RFC on this subject. Go to
> ftp://nic.ddn.mil/pub/rfc to check.

No it is not.  However, hyphens are.

But, the element "*" is a special case, with different semantics to go
with its different syntax.
-- 
Shields, CrossLink.