On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Charron <twaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is an _ allowed in a DNS name? > > I didn't think so, and my home DNS proxy doesn't think so, but other > networks seem fine with it. > > http://www.thingiverse.com/image:8662 > > Above is an example, where the image is stored by amazon at > http://thingiverse_beta.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/fe/2a/15/49/75/0.5mm_single_wall_calibration_piece_display_medium.jpg > > I sent Makerbot an email about the use of the _, but I just wanted > to make sure I wasn't wrong that _'s in a domain name aren't allowed, > as their reserved for special use.
I'm fairly certain that the spec says no, but there may be cases where certain DNS servers may take it to deal with dumb inhouse admins and old-names on machine names. I've tried in the past to register Domains with an underscore and the machine just laughed at me. -- ~ * _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
