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Article #1500Once again: Underscore in domain names
From: Andreas Karrer
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00
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I was quite sure that underscores (_), ascii dec(95) were not allowed in host and domain names. If memory serves, BIND in its later versions enforces this (unless explicitly overwritten). I'm not aware of an RFC that relaxed the host name requirements later than RFC 1123 (which relaxed the rules such that a non-toplevel domain part may begin with a digit). But then, there are a lot of RFCs issued these days, and I don't read them all :-) But there seem to be three second-level domains under .ch: be_first.ch Wonderman Cato Johnson AG, Zurich royal_agency.ch Royal Agency SA, Grolley sli_ag.ch SLI Consulting AG, Frauenfeld Comments? - Andi Karrer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8cd8,d727a0d34762538b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8cd8,public From: karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer) Subject: Once again: Underscore in domain names Date: 1996/11/26 Message-ID: <slrn59ln03.odl.karrer@kuru.ee.ethz.ch> X-Deja-AN: 200831113 organization: Electronics Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland newsgroups: ch.network