Re: Underscores in host names

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:52:56AM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Most definitely not, and if this were 1985 I'd be {rf}commenting on
> the inadvisability of such hostnames, and those beginning or ending
> with "-", TLD names shorter than 2 or longer than 4 characters,
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> spaces in hostnames, [^a-z0-9\\-\\.], and other such marginally
> useful but infinitely problematic features.

I understand your other concerns, there, but TLD length?

To preserve assumptions in old apps?

Cheers,
-- jra
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