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7 Nov
2014
7 Nov
'14
6:02 p.m.
<oldgrump>
underscore is an illegal character for a hostname, per RFC.
you may thank a generation of miseducated Microsoft admins for thinking otherwise & polluting the world's DNS gene pool only to cause such untold suffering as this.
dashes are perfectly fine because they're not illegitimate characters wrongly used by people who should have known better.
bastards.
</oldgrump>
cheers,
R.
typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad.
On Nov 7, 2014, at 16:55, observium-request@observium.org wrote:
does not show due to the underscore in the name. Not sure why. Dashes seem to be fine though.