On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:25:23PM +1000, Doug Balmer wrote:
>    I raised a bug earlier [1]https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9766
>    which could be a can of worms.
>    My opinion is, facter has a bug and needs (eventual) fixing even if it
>    causes problems for some. There is a reason we have changelogs.
>    Debate?

Shortly:

I would really rather that widely-used software stuck to the basic RFC 
conventions as much as possible.

More discussion:

I'm really curious to know know what your "various reasons" are. If you have a 
special requirement for oddly shaped hostnames I sympathize with you, since I 
imagine that it's because of some vendor or manager with very special ideas 
about the world. Possibly you'd be better off sending a patch that people can 
use to set a configuration option in puppet.conf to see your unique hostname 
requirement behaviour.

RFC-952 has this to say about periods:

'Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components of 
"domain style names".'

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952

For instance, to my knowledge:

bob.office.division.company.com (fully qualified domain name)
bob (hostname, the actual computer's name)
office.division.company.com (domain)
bob.office.division (partially qualified domain name, so I've heard)

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