rfc-2100

The Naming of Hosts

J. Ashworth
date1997-04-01 streamINDEPENDENT statusINFORMATIONAL pages3 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2100 doi10.17487/RFC2100 errataview
This RFC is a commentary on the difficulty of deciding upon an acceptably distinctive hostname for one's computer, a problem which grows in direct proportion to the logarithmically increasing size of the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.