Re: DNS ting (fwd)

[Aleksi Suhonen <Aleksi.Suhonen@xxxxxx>]

Quote From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robert_Martin-Leg=E8ne?=
Message ID: Pine.BSF.4.00.9810122234210.22947-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx

} I still would like to have HOSTLEN raised from 63 to 255.. is the limit
} imposed to save bandwidth? Because it hasn't really got much to do with
} the RFC's.

} A token's length is set to max 63 chars. A token is what's between two
} dots. A FQDN is set to max 255 chars.

If you change HOSTLEN, you immediately risk breaking the protocol.

The RFC doesn't specifically say, why there is a maximum of mode
changes per message, but it is very closely intertwined with a
few selected #defines. HOSTLEN is one of them.

(Although ... if you take care to make the calculations, you see
that the maximum of mode changes per message should be 2 to make
it safe, not 3.)

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	Aleksi Suhonen