[jboss-dev] Hostname problem when starting JB AS TRUNK

[Jason T. Greene]

Jonathan Halliday wrote:
> Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> In reality there is nothing wrong with [underscores],
>  > they just aren't allowed in DNS.
> 
> That was correct in ARPANET times, but it's been untrue for quite a 
> while, even before internationalized domain names became widely 
> supported. DNS itself (as in the RFCs) does not make such a restriction. 
> Certain overly conservative client programs may.

Yeah I was generalizing. BIND enforced it up to version 8. V9 changed 
it, and will if check_names is explicitly enabled. Internic won't let 
you register domains with it


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