From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 14 16:55:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3080837B419 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from win2kads (win2kads [192.168.1.5]) by mail.velosystems.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BF3812729; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003201c1e40f$c717e980$0501a8c0@VELOSYSTEMS.NET> From: "Steve Wingate" To: "Steven Lake" , References: Subject: Re: Longest possible DNS name?? Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:54:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Just curious. Never had to do this before but the bossman got > word from one of the execs up top that we've got to put this domain name > in place and with all due speed for something they will be needing in the > next week. That I don't mind. What's bugging me is the length of the > domain name. It's 153 charecters minus periods and 17 levels deep. > > This is no joke. Don't ask. :) The longest I've attempted with > bind is 42 charecters long and that was broken up into a 5 level > heirarchy. Example: resource.boston-dcnorth.eastcoast.domain.com > > They want something over 3 time's that size. So my question is > simple. What's the most charecters allowed per domain level and how many > levels can we go? I'd try to talk them out of this silly domain name, but > they're dead set on it and my boss has already gone though the fire with > them about it and came out extra crispy. They're refusing to budge one > single bit on this. So while my boss gets decrispified and our DNS guy is > out sick, it's my job to solve this. > The longest 'safe' limit is currently 255 characters for the entire FQDN (to make a long story short). That number is affected by the character set in use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message