Re: DNS ting (fwd)

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Christophe Kalt wrote:
> 
> There have been other replies,
> I thought I'd add a note about the fact that it's really
> impossible to change without breaking the protocol,
> break the RFC (in a major way).
> 
> You have to remember that IRC messages have a maximum length
> of 512 bytes, which is really not much, and you're talking
> about using more than half of this for your nick!user@host
> prefix.
> 
> Christophe
> 
> On Oct 13, Robert Martin-Legène wrote:
> | 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.
> |
> | -- Robert Martin-Legène / Null ! robert@xxxxxxxxxxxx

btw: if you count really good, you can't even do 1 mode change if the
host would be that long.

nick!user@long-host mode #channel +b nick!user@long-host

with both long-host's you already have 510 bytes ...


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