how many subdomains can i have?

[Joe Kattner]

I've don't know of a restriction on the amount of delegation, but RFC 2181,
Section 11 states that the length of the fqdn is limited to 255 octets,
which includes the separators.


--Joe


-----Original Message-----
From: Hayden Wimmer [mailto:hwimmer at bakerref.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:56 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: how many subdomains can i have?



i know that i can have this 

server.subdomain.domain.com

can i do this

server.sub-subdomain.subdomain.domain.com

how many levels can i go?