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Re: Host name limits



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.

You clearly haven't met John Goerzen.

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