[Lon-capa-dev] Re: [Lon-capa-msu] dashes in domain names and lonIds?

[Martin Siegert]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:30:15PM -0500, Scott Harrison wrote:
> Dear Gerd:
> 
> My recollection was that, among many
> other incredible things happening,
> we tried dashes in Zimbabwe, and it
> didn't work.  I grepped through the hobbes
> mail archives, but can't find the e-mail,
> so it must have been through telephone or
> non-listserv e-mail that Guy and I figured this out.
> 
> I will contact Robert at Halle about this
> then.
> 
> Shall I add
> <blink><h1>No non-alphanumeric lonDefDomain or
> lonHostID values</h1></blink>
> 
> to the beginning of
> all pages of install.lon-capa.org? :)
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> > 
> > Scott,
> > 
> > I do not know - this has never ever been tested. If it does not work, it
> > can screw up things really bad for EVERYBODY in the network.

I am quite sure that we started with sfu-lc. That didn't work.
We then tried sfu_lc - that didn't work either. We grudgingly 
converged to sfulc.
Thus, I believe this is "well tested" ...

Martin

> > 
> > So: No, only alphanumeric characters are allowed in domain names and
> > lonIds.
> > 
> > NO dashes or other specials chars, not even "_" - how's that for playing
> > it safe? Please do!
> > 
> > - Gerd.
> > 
> > Scott Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear Anybody:
> > >
> > > Are dashes allowed in domain names and/or lonIds,
> > > or only alphanumeric characters?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Scott
> > >
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