hostname underscore
<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.
MY SQUID AGREES.
On 08/11/2014 01:02, Rob VanHooren wrote:
<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.
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My octopus disagrees.
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On 7 November 2014 18:07:38 Tom Laermans tom.laermans@powersource.cx wrote:
MY SQUID AGREES.
On 08/11/2014 01:02, Rob VanHooren wrote:
<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.
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LIKE
Or printers with names like Printer_Jeter or Printer_Mattingly :)
-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Rob VanHooren Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 7:02 PM To: observium@observium.org Subject: [Observium] hostname underscore
<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.
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