[145216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Sep 30 18:01:55 2011
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:00:36 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "steve pirk [egrep]" <steve@pirk.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAK4no04rVMZOyqGL0DU-BZpD+j46M+xOGFto4ETw=82LKnowjA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:54:38PM -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
> I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to
> register a domain name that was 24 characters long. Shortly after that, I
> heard that the character limit had been increased to like 128 characters,
> and we were able to register the name.
>
> Can anyone offer some input, or is this a memory of a bad dream?
> ;-]
>
> -- Steve Pirk
> Yensid
the foundational DNS spec sez:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
2.3.1
[elided]
There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less.
/bill
