From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 28 14:20:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16886 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:20:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16881 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01162; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:03:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611282203.PAA01162@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: libc To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:03:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Nov 27, 96 11:25:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > That's an area open to much debate, much of it due to older RFCs that > weren't explicit enough. The valid set of characters in a > hostname are > [A-Za-z0-9.-] > in case someone is curious. Note that the names are cannonized prior to comparison. Therefore you cannot have: host.foo.org and: Host.foo.org as distinct entitites. The range specification above sort of implies that case is not folded... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.