From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 1:56:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9A037B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 3045816B1E for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:56:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [193.252.44.38] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AAD3326F038A; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:18:11 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020415105417.04270e28@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:56:15 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: Longest possible DNS name?? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 >If my memory serves me correctly, the maximum name as specified in the >appropriate RFC is 64 characters. 63 is longest label 127 max number of labels. 254 is longest FQDN, including the dots Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message