Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:54:30 -0700 From: "Steve Wingate" <stevew@velosystems.net> To: "Steven Lake" <raiden@shell.core.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Longest possible DNS name?? Message-ID: <003201c1e40f$c717e980$0501a8c0@VELOSYSTEMS.NET> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0204141750150.7765-100000@shell.core.com>
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> 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
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