Re: single-character host names

How about ; DiG 9.4.3b2 -t . @a.root-servers.net ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49774 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 14 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;;

Re: single-character host names

Certainly, several large organizations (Google, Yahoo and CNN, to name 3) are using at least 1: m Not to mention all the root-server operators. So the rule clearly isn't being enforced very well. :) Actually, to be lawyerly about it, while RFC952 says you can't have a single-character name,

Re: single-character host names

there are several examples of infrastructure, including the root name servers themselves, successfully using single-character host names. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https