By the RFC952 [1] the hostname is case-insensitive: "No distinction is made between upper and lower case."
By the RCF4343 the DNS lookups are also case insensitives [2]: "According to the original DNS design decision, comparisons on name lookup for DNS queries should be case insensitive" [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952 [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4343 ** Changed in: nova Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808730 Title: Why instance hostnames are not case sensitive Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Invalid Bug description: I create some instances in R.I find these instances` hostnames are not sensitive. eg, The name I input is TEST,but login the instance,the hostname is test. I study the code of creating instances, but I find a function named sanitized_hostname. In this function,it will call the function hostname.lower().But I do not know why do like this. Can somebody help me explain this problem? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1808730/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
