From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261596AbULFRdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:33:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261542AbULFRcg (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:32:36 -0500 Received: from hermes.domdv.de ([193.102.202.1]:6929 "EHLO hermes.domdv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261582AbULFRbm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:31:42 -0500 Message-ID: <41B49773.1010006@domdv.de> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:31:31 +0100 From: Andreas Steinmetz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040918 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: Jan Engelhardt , Ulrich Drepper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: host name length References: <40521AA6.7070308@redhat.com> <20041203160538.77a22864.rddunlap@osdl.org> <41B48C9E.6030607@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <41B48C9E.6030607@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Hi Jan, > Can you be more specific, please? about (which) DNS FAQ. > I found several "DNS FAQ"s, but nothing specific about > DNS hostname lengths. > 63 characters per label (=hostname) as to: [RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Implementation and Specifications", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use robotrap@domdv.de