Re: Should hostname always be lower case?
The domain name system is totally case-insensitive so
FiReFlY.HardknocKs.cOm will lookup as firefly.hardknocks.com. I
have been administering the domain name servers for the
okstate.edu domain since around 1992. We use dynamic DHCP name
registration and the names that folks register are loaded with
mixed-case names or names that are all upper case. The only time
it matters is when we are trouble-shooting a problem and someone
is looking for a certain name in a zone transfer and the name
they are looking for is stored with upper or mixed case. The
person working on the zone transfer must always remember to do
something like a grep -i so that they don't miss the right name
but in a different case than was expected.
Martin McCormick
Balint Szigeti writes:
> 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
> >
> >
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