Bug#264615: Norwegian characters not allowed in hostname.

[joshk@triplehelix.org (Joshua Kwan)]

tag 264615 + pending
thanks

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The error message should probably mention the ASCII letters a to z,
> the ascii minus sign and the latin digits 0-9, as this is the valid
> characters list of characters for host names.  Should it mention lower
> case as well?

We currently accept uppercase/lowercase hostnames. That code has not
changed in a _long_ time.

Well then, how about this:

Template: netcfg/invalid_hostname
Type: error
_Description: Invalid hostname
 The name "${hostname}" is invalid.
 .
 A valid hostname may contain only the numbers 0-9, the letters a-z and A-Z,
 and the minus sign. It must be between 2 and 63 characters long, and may not
 begin or end with a minus sign.

I admit there is some room for true idiots to say "hmm, you can only use
the characters 0, 9, a, z, A, and Z in the hostname!!!1 debian
sucks!!!1", but are there any better ideas for wording this template?

It has been fixed the above way in Subversion right now.

-- 
Joshua Kwan