Re: Fw: Hostname limitation for hosts running Informix database.

Hi, As far as I know, hostname can contain a "-", but DBSERVERNAME and DBSERVERALIASES, and the equivalent field in sqlhosts name can not. -- Regards, -- Ali Azarkar. > From akumar@brightmail.com Tue Aug 31 08:00:20 1999 > From: "Akhilesh Kumar" <akumar@brightmail.com> > To: <informix-list@iiug.org> > Subject: Fw: Hostname limitation for hosts running Informix database. > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:52:28 -0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: azarkar@tmcso.com > X-Return-Path: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > > Hi, > I am a new user and have a newbie question : > Does informix have a host name > limitation of 8 characters for the server and if the hostname accepts "-" > as a part of it. > eg. Is akhil-ultra a valid hostname for Informix servers? > > Thanks > Akhilesh Kumar > > > >