User Guide

Planning 69
Novell DNS/DHCP Management Utility Administration Guide
103-000164-001
September 4, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Hostnames
Every host on your network that uses the Internet or that can be reached from
the Internet should have a name. Each resource record has a hostname field.
Some simple rules are required for hostnames for conformance to accepted
Internet standards. Hostnames are called labels and can have alphabetic and
numeric characters. A hyphen is allowed if it separates two character strings.
Labels might not be all numbers, but they can have a leading digit. Labels
must begin and end only with a letter or digit.