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Re: number of characters in a domain?
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 16:01:06 +0200
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:35:57AM -0400, Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote a message of 12 lines which said:
I would consult RFC1035 for the label sizes, but the total length can include multiple labels up to 255 in length. Check section 2.3.4
On another mailing list, Marc Blanchet noticed the limit in the RFC is 255 octets, not characters, which make a difference if you use IDN :-)
Current thread:
- number of characters in a domain? Ryan Finnesey (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Jared Mauch (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Jimmy Hess (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? William Herrin (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Matthew Pounsett (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Doug Barton (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Mark Andrews (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Doug Barton (Jul 23)
- Re: number of characters in a domain? Jared Mauch (Jul 23)