You are trying to cherry pick from the assumptions. They explicitly state that the period delimits components of "domain style names". I know that phrase seems questionable and had me confused a little but if you look at the RFC and the date it was created DNS was just coming about. In fact, I think if you were to use periods it would confuse DNS resolve because it follows the same convention as stated in the RFC. If I were external trying to look up host.server.domain.com, my DNS would try to look for a nameserver for server.domain.com. You would still be forced to use a new zone file for server.domain.com.
On Sep 29, 8:28 pm, Doug Balmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 'Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components > > of "domain style names".' > > Let's give this sentence some context. > > <quote> > ASSUMPTIONS > > 1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up > to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus > sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when > they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See > RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for > background). > </quote> > > No mention there of a hostname having to be the first component of a "name". > The succeeding RFC to this definition is in RFC1123 which states the > hostname can be up to 255 characters and begin with a number. No other > mention of the first component of the name being the hostname. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
