MAX hsot/alias name length
Sivakumar Thiyagarajan
sivakumar_id at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 20 18:10:42 UTC 2001
Hi there,
Is there any maximum length for a host name or alias name for BIND dns entries? If so, can this max length customised ?
I have obzerved that nsupdate does not allow host names more than 62 chars long ( weird number ). Am I dealing with an nsupdate limit here or is it a DNS limit?
Heres the nsupdate output (interactive mode )...
% nsupdate
> update add <bighostname> 33 in a <172.35.64.34
>
res_update: mkquery failed
failed update packet
>
I did find a #define MAXHOSTNAMELEN in the /usr/include/netdb.h file but can't see it being used in nsupdate.c or any other source in BIND 8.1.2
Please help me find the max hostname lengths
thanks
Sivakumar
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