Are there any limits to the character length of a service name in an SRV record?

Walt Howard whoward at piv27.cns.ualberta.ca
Mon Aug 30 18:55:06 UTC 2004


In article <cgvf5o$19fq$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Corsa, Todd <tcorsa at bnl.gov> wrote:
>Are there any limits to the character length of a service name in an SRV
>record? I've searched through O'Reilly's DNS and BIND (4th edition), read
>several RFCs describing record types, including the 2 on SRV records (2782
>and 2052) and 1035, and done extensive web searches, but can't find any
>clear rules on this.
>
I think RFC1035 section 2.3.4 limits the length of any label in a name to
63 characters and the total length of a name to 255 characters.


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