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Re: Should hostname always be lower case?



On Lu, 12 mai 14, 15:03:01, 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.)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is.
(Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut, according to Wikiquote)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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