The domain name system is totally case-insensitive so FiReFlY.HardknocKs.cOm will lookup as firefly.hardknocks.com. I have been administering the domain name servers for the okstate.edu domain since around 1992. We use dynamic DHCP name registration and the names that folks register are loaded with mixed-case names or names that are all upper case. The only time it matters is when we are trouble-shooting a problem and someone is looking for a certain name in a zone transfer and the name they are looking for is stored with upper or mixed case. The person working on the zone transfer must always remember to do something like a grep -i so that they don't miss the right name but in a different case than was expected.
Martin McCormick Balint Szigeti writes: > most of. if you will use spacewalk and your hostname will contain > capital letters, it will cause problem > > On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 15:03 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: > > > List, > > > > May I ask whether the 'case' of the hostname is important, in the > > sense that use of any upper-case characters may disrupt name resolvers? > > > > We have a server running wheezy, and we named it D7Server (not > > d7server). Could this matter to any resolver attempting to look up > > D7Server? (It might matter, for example, if standards allow > > resolvers, generally, to assume that names to be resolved will be > > lower case.) > > > > regards, Ron > > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140512181046.5d12f22...@server1.shellworld.net
