max hostname lengths (MAXHOSTNAMELEN ?)
Sivakumar Thiyagarajan
sivakumar_id at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 28 19:24:52 UTC 2001
Hi Gurus,
Is there any maximum length for a host name or alias name for BIND
dns entries? If so, can this max length customised?
I have obzerved that nsupdate does not allow host names more than 62 chars long ( weird number ).
Heres the nsupdate output (interactive mode )...
% nsupdate
> update add <bighostname> 33 in a 172.35.64.34
res_update: mkquery failed
failed update packet
>
I did find a #define MAXHOSTNAMELEN in the /usr/include/netdb.h file but can't see it being used in nsupdate.c or any other source in BIND 8.1.2
Am I dealing with an nsupdate limit here or is it a DNS limit on hostname lengths ?
thanks
Sivakumar
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