On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:55:44AM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Incidentally do the GNU/Hurd developers imagine there will be > hostnames longer than 255 characters? It will never see any from the > DNS (RFC1035 2.3.4), and I doubt many people would have the patience > to type in hostnames even half that long. Don't try to throw practicality into this, it's a matter of principle. -- Mike Stone