pir@??? (Peter Radcliffe) wrote on 06.09.00 in <20000906105646.B14322@???>:
> 2) DNS used for Internet names. This imposes more character
> restrictions and was relatively recently loosened to allow [0-9]
> as the first character in a label. These apply to the IN class,
> which is pretty much always the one we're talking about.
"Recently"?
3com.com is pretty old IIRC. (And yes, that was the domain that changed
the rule.)
MfG Kai