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| 1861.1 | Not a legal character (by RFC) | JANIX::jmh | sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley | Wed Feb 05 1997 14:42 | 17 | 
|  | >>Notefile: SMURF::ASE
>>Note: 1861.0
>>Author: SALEM::HARRIS_M
>>Topic: Memory Channel node name with underscores?
>>Date:  5-FEB-1997 12:26
    
>>      I heard thru the grapevine (Not sure if it was true) that using an
>>     _ (underscore in the memory channel node name) may cause problems with
>>     the ASE cluster? Has anyone encountered this as a problem? 
	Underscores should not be used in host/domain names at all ...
	In some RFC (the number escaped me) mentions them as not to be
	used characters .
 - Jan
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| 1861.2 | Is it legal? - I don't know ... | VIRGIN::SUTTER | Who are you ??? - I'm BATMAN !!! | Thu Feb 06 1997 05:29 | 12 | 
|  | cmon had a problem with underscores in hostnames since the cluster map 
used them as separators. 
I think this problem is fixed in the latest releases and there are patches
for the old ones. 
I don't know wether it is legal to have underscores in hostnames (I think
it is). 
Regards, 
Arnold
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| 1861.3 | RFC952 | JANIX::jmh | sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley | Mon Feb 10 1997 01:38 | 14 | 
|  | >>Notefile: SMURF::ASE
>>Note: 1861.2
>>Author: VIRGIN::SUTTER "Who are you ??? - I'm BATMAN !!!"
>>Topic: Memory Channel node name with underscores?
>>Title: Is it legal? - I don't know ...
>>I don't know wether it is legal to have underscores in hostnames (I think
>>it is). 
	As per RFC952 no underscores should be used in hostnames.
	Bind from version 4.9.4 onwards will check for illegal
	hostnames and considers the zone to have a syntax error.
- Jan
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| 1861.4 | What problems would show up, using underscores? | SALEM::HARRIS_M |  | Thu Feb 13 1997 12:46 | 9 | 
|  |     
    Now that I know we shouldn't be using _ in node names. Are there any
    known errors/bugs that would arise because of the using of under-scores
    in the Hostname, for either the machine itself or for say the memory
    channel hostname.
    
    						Thanks,
    
    			Matt
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| 1861.5 | cluster_cnx | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | John McDonald | Mon Mar 31 1997 12:04 | 8 | 
|  | If an underscore is not a legal character, why does the Trucluster
installation automatically insert a node name called 'cluster_cnx'
into the hosts file?
John McDonald
Atlanta CSC
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| 1861.6 | This hased been filed as a QAR | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Gregory P. Myrdal | Wed Apr 02 1997 14:02 | 7 | 
|  | 
This problem has been filed as QAR 46932 (unfortunately since
June 1996).  I am requesting that this be resolved in the next
release.
-- Greg
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| 1861.7 | Will be fixed in wave 4 | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Gregory P. Myrdal | Thu Apr 03 1997 09:59 | 16 | 
|  | Hi,
I did a little more research on this topic and found out that the QAR
and the problem has been scheduled to be fixed in the wave 4 release.
It is incorrect (I assume simply because someone not being familiar
to rfc952) but since it does not seem to effecting anyone a fix in
wave 4 appears to be adequate.
BTW, a new install could change the cluster_cnx to a another name
if they wanted.  The reason that this is not being investigated
for wave35 is that rolling upgrade causes problems.  Ie. its not
seamless.  If there were problems as a result of this, engineering
is willing to look further into the problem.
-- Greg
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