Re: Too long a domain name

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

]MB}http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
]
] www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
] 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
]
]This is an error in Netscape Navigator 4.61 for Windows 95/98/NT. It is
]limiting the entire domain name to 64 characters instead of allowing 63
]characters for each domain label plus 1 character for a separator.

N*(63+1) is the important part

]The dnsserver included with Squid 1.1.22 has no problems with the URL when

Neither does the Squid 2.2s4 dnsserver:

$ /usr/local/squid/bin/dnsserver
www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
$addr 0 194.42.244.17
<Ctrl-D>
$

Le deagh dhùrachd,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
Received on Fri Jul 30 1999 - 00:49:59 MDT