Specifications

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Using Access Server Commands
Naming Conventions
Naming Conventions for Access Servers and LAT Services
Some commands require you to enter an access server, node, port, or service
name. All of these names must be a string of 1 to 16 characters and cannot be
abbreviated. Allowable characters are A to Z, 0 to 9, $, - (hyphen), _ (underscore),
and . (period). The access server converts all lowercase letters to uppercase letters.
The exception is DECnet node names. DECnet node names (not LAT node names)
must have 1 to 6 alphanumeric characters, including at least one alphabetic
character.
DECnet node names and access server names must be unique on a local area
network (LAN), and port names must be unique on a network access server.
Digital recommends that you set the server name to match the DECnet node
name for the server. LAT service names must be unique for each service on the
LAN; however, one service may be offered by multiple service nodes.
These naming conventions do not apply to user names, access server, or service
identification messages.
Reference
For more details, refer to the Cabletron Network Access Software Management guide.
Naming Conventions for Internet Host Names
Each Internet node, called a host, is given an Internet domain name. The format of
a domain name is the concatenation of all the labels of the domains from the host
up to the root. A label is the name of a single level or domain in a tree-structured
name space. The labels that compose a domain name are printed or read left to
right, from the most specific (lowest, farthest from the root) to the least specific
(highest, closest to the root). The labels are separated by dots or periods. Each
label can be one to 63 characters in length. The maximum number of characters
that can represent a domain name is 255. For example, the domain name
falcon.nac.tmp.com contains 4 labels ( falcon, nac, tmp, and com ), which along
with the periods comprise a total of 18 characters. Any suffix of labels in a domain
name is called a domain. In the above example, the lowest level domain is
falcon.nac.tmp.com ; the second level domain is nac.tmp.com ; the third level
domain is
tmp.com ; and the top level domain is com . The root domain is specified
by a dot.