From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261628AbULFT2a (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:28:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261629AbULFT2a (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:28:30 -0500 Received: from hermes.domdv.de ([193.102.202.1]:37639 "EHLO hermes.domdv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261628AbULFT2W (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:28:22 -0500 Message-ID: <41B4B2CD.80209@domdv.de> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:28:13 +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: Ulrich Drepper CC: "Randy.Dunlap" , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: host name length References: <40521AA6.7070308@redhat.com> <20041203160538.77a22864.rddunlap@osdl.org> <41B48C9E.6030607@osdl.org> <41B49773.1010006@domdv.de> <41B4B210.1040105@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <41B4B210.1040105@redhat.com> 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 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Yes, each label can only have 63 bytes, but the entire fqdn can be > longer, much longer. And the hostname stored with sethostname() should > be the fqdn of the machine, not just one lalbel (in DNS speak). 255 characters to be exact. The question was, however, for the hostname which I usually don't interpret as a fqdn. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use robotrap@domdv.de