> I think the better argument here (rather than just focusing on '-') is > to talk about DNS requirements. Obviously, IP isn't the only reason to > have datalinks, but it's an important one, and if people want to set the > datalink name to match the host name used as an address on that link, > then matching up the character set would be useful.
... are you envisioning that the customer would also append e.g. ".0" to their interface/datalink name? Short of that, '-' is not the main stumbling block to having datalink names and hostnames match. -- meem