On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Rob Lingelbach wrote:
> I'm curious
> about this and am wondering if anyone else knows if indeed
> Microsoft was able to change the rules.
I've not heard of any rule changes. But there is a precedent. I believe
it was 3Com that got the rules changed so that host name components were
allowed to start with digits. A damn-fool change indeed. Now an IP
address is a syntactically valid host name, which is just confusing.
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