Re: hosts

[Robert Martin-Legene <robert@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Christophe Kalt wrote:

> On Dec 10, Tommi wrote:
> | Is there a limit on how long a host can be when on irc? I have a host that
> | has 64 characters and I only get a ip number.
> 
> common/struct_def.h:
> 
> #define HOSTLEN         63      /* Length of hostname. Updated to         */
>                                 /* comply with RFC1123                    */
> 

The maximum length for a hostname + domainname is 255. The max length the
each individual component (in between the dots) is 63. So I recommend this
to be increased accordingly.

Null @IRCnet

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