On 29 May 2014, at 18:56, [email protected] wrote: > Out of curiosity, where did the prohibition of underscores in host names > come from. I'm sure there's a historical reason for it, but I've never > heard it. Or is it really as simple as "RFC 952 only listed thirty seven > characters"
I believe this was a limitation of the (pre?) NCP-era ARPANET and may well have been a side-effect of the capabilities of operating systems from that era. See RFCs 226 and 229. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
