Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:03:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc Message-ID: <199611282203.PAA01162@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E0vSzua-0005ND-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 27, 96 11:25:28 pm
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> That's an area open to much debate, much of it due to older RFCs that > weren't explicit enough. The valid set of characters in a > hostname are > [A-Za-z0-9.-] > in case someone is curious. Note that the names are cannonized prior to comparison. Therefore you cannot have: host.foo.org and: Host.foo.org as distinct entitites. The range specification above sort of implies that case is not folded... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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