Multiple Hyphens in Hostname

[Leon Workman]

The hyphens aren't in a row.  I probably should've made that more
clear.  The names follow the format, pc-xxxxx-yyy.  I just wanted to
know whether or not the naming rules will be tripped up by this causing
a warning message to be logged in the syslog.  If every host is using
this DNS and every host has a bad name format, my syslog would get out
of hand very fast (although there are flags that can be set to disable
these messages).  Besides, I want to follow the standards so that I
won't get caught in a worse situation should the standards change in a
way that I will be forced to reconfigure the hostnames on my entire
network.

Leon Workman

Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
> I don't understand why there would be multiple hyphens in a row, but
> they should not be prevented by DNS.
>
> Incidentally, the name a pc or printer calls itself doesn't
necessarily
> have to match the name it is known by via DNS.
>
> Michael
>
> Leon Workman wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Leon Workman
> >
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