On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Satya wrote:
Active directory with domain name milky way IP add 198.165.10.2 same DNS
Are spaces allowed in domain names? (Genuine question. I thought they were not.)
DNS does not restrict which characters are allowed in a domain name.
The Domain Name Space:
* Tree Structure * Nodes have labels that are 0 to 63 octets long * Sibling nodes may not have the same label * Root node has a null string label * Domain Name is the list of labels on the path from node to root * Domain names are stored with arbitrary case, but compared case-insensitive * Separate parts of the domain are separated by a . * Since root node is a null string, a domain name would end with a . * Names which are relative to some well known origin server, or search domain do not end with a . * The most common interpretation uses the root "." as the single origin * Total number of octets should not exceed 255
You can check the RFC, or have a look at my slides at http://www.acm.org/chapters/bombay/slides/20010427.zip
Philip