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MeAndMyBIGIP_60's avatar
MeAndMyBIGIP_60
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Feb 19, 2010

FQDN Heads-up

In the Release Notes (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ve/releasenotes/product/relnotes_ve_10_1_0.htmlconfig_setup)     "In the Host Name box, retain or change the host name ...
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John_Hall_11177's avatar
John_Hall_11177
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Feb 19, 2010
Unfortunately, F5 is stuck between a rock ( RFC 952: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952 ) and a hard place ( Microsoft http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779857%28WS.10%29.aspx ). There's more discussion on the Hostname wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname, under "Restrictions on valid host names". Admittedly, it looks like the help text and the validation code do not agree in this instance.