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Re: [Devel] Change of hostnames to avoid hyphens

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Subject: Re: [Devel] Change of hostnames to avoid hyphens
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Jul 2003 16:31:31 +0200
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[Ragnar Wisløff]
> It would involve changes to DNS, DHCP and LTSP. Possibly some
> more. None of the service names have hyphens.

Go ahead.  If this is required to avoid problems with kdm, just do it.
Better now then later.  Add a comment in the DNS config saying why we
do not use dash even if it is allowed in the DNS specification.  (And
send a curse to the author of tools unable to handle dash in
hostnames.

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