From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261360AbULHVRL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:17:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261363AbULHVRL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:17:11 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31695 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261360AbULHVRI (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:17:08 -0500 Message-ID: <41B76443.2040205@osdl.org> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:29:55 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Steinmetz CC: Ulrich Drepper , 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> <41B4B2CD.80209@domdv.de> In-Reply-To: <41B4B2CD.80209@domdv.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > 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. So sethostname(2) sets fqdn, right? Ulrich, do you want help on this or is it already done? -- ~Randy