A client name with an '@'

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> Also, the venerably Russ Allbery created a lowercase realm for
> Stanford, and repeatedly has said that if he had to do it all over again
> he wouldn't have done a lowercase realm; too much software assumes an
> uppercase realm.  Maybe that has changed in the intervening years.

It worked okay (still is, so far as I know), but all the documentation
everywhere was "wrong" and it definitely wasn't worth the confusion.  We
never tried having realms that only differed in case, though.  That really
would have broken all DNS-based service discovery, etc.

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>