Multiple Hyphens in Hostname

[Cricket Liu]

Leon Workman <lworkman at mhc.net> wrote in message
news:<7nibe4$r39$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>...
> I've read RFC 1035 and RFC 1123, but they make no mention as to whether
> or not multiple hyphens within hostnames are fine.  I've got a network
> with several thousand PC's and printers setup with hostnames that have
> two or more hyphens in them.  Am I going to have to reconfigure each
> client's name on the entire network if I want to get DNS up and running?

I believe the only restriction on hyphens in labels is that they can't be
the first or last character.

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