From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 19: 7:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E063037B419 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from socrates ([12.239.165.26]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020416020749.YELG1143.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@socrates> for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 02:07:49 +0000 Message-ID: <001c01c1e4eb$682cab90$32040101@socrates> From: "Charles Pelletier" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Longest possible DNS name?? Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:07:05 -0500 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 good luck --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Lake" To: "f3z" Cc: "Steven Lake" ; Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Longest possible DNS name?? > Ok, slight update. I tried the idea, showed the boss (not my > boss, but the boss of my boss's boss, the guy who originally asked for > this domain) the RFC, and he agreed that his name is too long. Now > here's the part that's hilarious. He wanted me to change the RFC so that > he could have his domain name he wanted to be legitimate and doable. > (shrug) So I put it in and we're just planning on letting him see for > himself if it crashes and burns. Cause if it does, the CEO will yell and > I've got the memo saying that the asst. vp told me to do this and caused > this mess. So this should be resolved by itself by wendsday. :) > > Thanks for pointing out that info on the DNS. Being a newbie at > bind I also found some other cool stuff about DNS. Hopefully next time > the DNS guy is out sick we won't be caught cold. :) > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, f3z wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > If my memory serves me correctly, the maximum name as specified in the > > appropriate RFC is 64 characters. I have also seen code in apps which > > trauncate/complain about domains longer than 64 characters. I would suggest > > you search the RFC's for the bind spec if you want something to show your > > boss that that is the standard. > > > > (Thats not to say that many apps can handle longer domain names, but I would > > limit to 64 for compatibility, I would quote the specific RFC but its on my > > home computer not work). > > > > Regards, > > Jacob Rhoden > > > > on 15/4/2002 8:59 AM, Steven Lake at raiden@shell.core.com wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message