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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:53:02 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAXHOSTNAMELEN
Message-ID:  <p05010400b6cc4fcb01e1@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200103071842.NAA80421@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103072153170.43511-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> <20010307182453.D36537@sunbay.com> <200103071842.NAA80421@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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At 1:42 PM -0500 3/7/01, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:24:53 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
>
>>  This could be fixed by redefining MAXHOSTNAMELEN to 255.  Garrett?
>
>Please wait until I get a resolution of my aardvark on this topic.  I
>have proposed introduction of a new system parameter {HOST_NAME_MAX}
>which is explicit about the terminating NUL.

Perhaps the name should be explicit too...
     HOSTNAME_PLUS_NULL_MAX

:-)

(it's a joke.  calm down everyone...)
-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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