The maximum length of host names is provided by POSIX-compliant 
compilers. MAXHOSTNAMELEN is a standard definition relative to those 
values so we do not need the magic numbers. The actual RC2181 texts 
describe the same limits defined by POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1.
There are some slightly-broken systems which use an older POSIX standard 
with much smaller values. But I feel we should obey those system limits 
and not pass their kernels larger chunks of data.
This makes use of the standard values instead of our magic numbers.
Votes?
Amos
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