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Re: hosts
- To: ircd-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: hosts
- From: Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 17:31:31 -0500
- In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971211162318.14719C-100000@ns.DK.net>; from Robert Martin-Legene on Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 04:24:32PM +0100
- References: <19971211081526.12557@stealth.net> <Pine.GSO.3.96.971211162318.14719C-100000@ns.DK.net>
On Dec 11, Robert Martin-Legene wrote:
| 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.
Besides increasing noticeably the amount of memory used by
ircd, it won't be correctly handled by older versions: the
hostname gets truncated (which would be a convenient way to
get around a ban on your TLD, or even domain)
so we'll have to keep 63 as max length.