Re: Should hostname always be lower case?

[Balint Szigeti <balint.szgt@gmail.com>]

most of. if you will use spacewalk and your hostname will contain capital letters, it will cause problem

On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 15:03 +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
> List,
>
> May I ask whether the 'case' of the hostname is important, in the 
> sense that use of any upper-case characters may disrupt name resolvers?
>
> We have a server running wheezy, and we named it D7Server (not 
> d7server).  Could this matter to any resolver attempting to look up 
> D7Server?  (It might matter, for example, if standards allow 
> resolvers, generally, to assume that names to be resolved will be 
> lower case.)
>
> regards, Ron