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.

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