Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy!

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plus, I mean, unless you’re using a Threadiverse host as your home instance, how often are you typing its name?

  Having a hyphen is RFC-conformant:

  RFC 952:

  1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
  to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
  sign (-), and period (.).  Note that periods are only allowed when
  they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
  RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
  background).  No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
  name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case.  The first
  character must be an alpha character.  The last character must not be
  a minus sign or period.  A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have
  "-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name.  Hosts which do not serve as
  Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of
  their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last
  part of its host name, if it is a DoD host.  Single character names
  or nicknames are not allowed.
  

  RFC 1123:

     The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
     [DNS:4].  One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
     restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
     letter or a digit.  Host software MUST support this more liberal
     syntax.
  
     Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and
     SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters.
  

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