[Freeipa-users] Re: Case sensitivity?
Simon Matthews via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Why does ipa-client install require that the hostname be lower case?
Hostnames are case-insensitive. Shouldn't IPA follow this and be case-insensitive?
I think this was a "don't try to boil the ocean" problem. Not everything
treats, or treated, hostnames as case-insensitive. It's possible things
are different now. The patch originated in 2011 with issue
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/1080
rob