In article <19980928210036.A24460@qual.net>, Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net> wrote:

Allowable characters in hostnames are:

a-zA-Z0-9

I think / is also allowable, and there is an RFC on this subject. Go to ftp://nic.ddn.mil/pub/rfc to check.

No it is not. However, hyphens are. But, the element "*" is a special case, with different semantics to go with its different syntax. -- Shields, CrossLink.