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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:03:52 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libc
Message-ID:  <199611282203.PAA01162@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <E0vSzua-0005ND-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 27, 96 11:25:28 pm

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> 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.



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