…The DNS was originally deployed into the Host Tables environment as outlined in RFC952 , and it is likely that the term followed informally from the definition there. Over time, the definition seems to have shifted. "Host name" is often meant to be a domain name that follows the …

… RFC 952 rule that host name labels neither begin nor end with a hyphen-minus [ RFC952 ]. A decoder MUST recognize the letters in both uppercase and lowercase forms (including mixtures of both forms). An encoder SHOULD output only uppercase forms or only lowercase forms, unless i…

…e DNS was originally deployed into the Host Tables environment as outlined in [ RFC952 ], and it is likely that the term followed informally from the definition there. Over time, the definition seems to have shifted. "Host name" is often meant to be a domain name that follows the…

…ain Identifier ¶ A domain identifier is a standard DNS hostname as specified in RFC952 [ 4 ] and RFC1123. [ 5 ] It is case-insensitive 7-bit ASCII and limited to 255 bytes. It is the only required component of a JID. 2.3 Node Identifier ¶ Node identifiers are restricted to 256 by…

…omain Identifier A domain identifier is a standard DNS hostname as specified in RFC952 [ ] and RFC1123. [ ] It is case-insensitive 7-bit ASCII and limited to 255 bytes. It is the only required component of a JID. 2.3 Node Identifier Node identifiers are restricted to 256 bytes, T…