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On 27 Nov 1996 11:17:33 GMT, Andreas Karrer <karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>In article <57fcdv-sem@svusenet.ubs.ch>, Daniel G. Kluge wrote:
>>[a..z][a..z\d-]*[0..9a..z]/i.
>
>Ahem, should be   /[a-z]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?/i
>One-letter host names have been allowed since the dawn of humanity, in
>fact, one of the top-level nameservers used to be "a.isi.edu".

Right, this slipped by ....

>The question was if some newer RFC exists that legalized '_' .

Not that I was looking for one..
>Slashes!!! This is completely sick. Who would possibly use *SLASHES*
>in hostnames? How should a program parse http://foo.ch/bar.ch/baz/ ?
>Should it try to do a DNS lookup on "foo.ch/bar.ch" ?

sprint.net, icp.net use them quite often.

As for funny characters, I went through the slrn-newsreader sourcecode, which
has a special routine to remove all 'funny' characters from the FQDN, when
generating a Message-Id. 

Mostly because there was an occasion where sombody hat a '(' in his hostname!!

>"A lot of people" is an exaggeration, IMHO. In the past, this happened
>within .ch when a new organization joined the net, and it usually
>took them about a year to change that.

As I said, sprint.net uses them in their host/interfach-protocol_whatever 
hostnames

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