hostname limitation

[Doug Barton]

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Does anyone know what the limitation on hostnames are in DNS?
> 
>         Yes.
> 
> >  I need to know how many characters I can use for a hostname...
> 
>         This is an ambigious question.
> 
>         The DNS supports hostnames lengths up to 253 characters.
>         This is less than the maximum of 255 specified by RFC 1123.

	Not that I'm arguing with you, but this is a new one on me. Do you have a
reference for this? Or is it a limitation built into the software at some
point that we have to propogate forward?

Inquiring minds, and all that...

Doug
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