From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Possible bug: ssh-host-config - getent when computer name is "-" (dash)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F460DB.1030807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F46003.2060704@gmail.com>
On 24/03/2016 22:45, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 3/24/2016 11:43 AM, Dirk Fassbender wrote:
>> Am 24.03.2016 um 15:12 schrieb Unknown Sender:
>>> I noticed this bug for the first time today on a computer that has the
>>> computer name "-" (dash).
>>>
>> See
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname
>> for a start about host name definitions.
>>
>
> From this reference:
> "The Internet standards (Requests for Comments) for protocols mandate
> that component hostname labels may contain only the ASCII letters 'a'
> through 'z' (in a case-insensitive manner), the digits '0' through '9',
> and the hyphen ('-'). The original specification of hostnames in RFC
> 952, mandated that labels ** could not start** with a digit or with a hyphen,
> and must not end with a hyphen."
>
> Note that hyphen (a.k.a. dash) is permitted.
not as first letter
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 14:12 Unknown Sender
2016-03-24 15:43 ` Dirk Fassbender
2016-03-24 21:45 ` cyg Simple
2016-03-24 21:49 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2016-03-24 22:12 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-03-24 23:20 ` Andrey Repin
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