[145424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Oct 7 21:22:34 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAK4no07pVY2G=Kok-_2vwHcXQqtdXt5rmBbZWchLWo1k6jnE0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:16:46 -0700
To: "steve pirk [egrep]" <steve@pirk.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com,
Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
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NSI was never the only registrar. They were just the only registrar
for COM, ORG, NET, EDU, and possibly a few other TLDs, but,
they were, for example, never the registrar for US or many other
CCTLDs.
Therefore, it was not internet wide, though I will admit that it did
cover most of the widely known gTLDs.
Owen
On Oct 7, 2011, at 4:45 PM, steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
> It turns out it was an artificial limitation on Network Solution's =
part.
> Being the only registrar at the time, it was pretty much internet wide =
at
> that point, contrary to the RFC spec.
>=20
> What was so funny was that someone got Internic/Network Solutions to =
up the
> limit. Apparently just to save some money on reprinting movie =
posters... ok,
> so they would have had to change some trailers...
> ;-]
>=20
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 16:39, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> =
wrote:
>>> I remember tales from when there was an eight character limit. But =
that
>> was
>>> back when you didn't have to pay for them and they assigned you a =
class-c
>>> block automatically. Of course it took six weeks to register =
because
>> there
>>> was only one person running the registry.
>>=20
>> You may be referring to a limitation of a certain OS regarding a
>> hostname; or some network's policy.
>> But the DNS protocol itself never had a limit of 8 characters.
>> When we are talking about the contents of "A" record names,
>>=20
>> I would refer you to
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt
>> "RFC 2181
>> Clarifications to the DNS Specification R. Elz, R. Bush
>> [ July 1997 ] (TXT =3D 36989) (Updates RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC1123)
>> (Updated-By RFC4035, RFC2535, RFC4343, RFC4033, RFC4034, RFC5452)
>> (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (Stream: IETF, Area: int, WG: dnsind) "
>>=20
>> "
>> Elz & Bush Standards Track [Page =
12]
>> ...
>> Occasionally it is assumed that the Domain Name System serves only
>> the purpose of mapping Internet host names to data, and mapping
>> Internet addresses to host names. This is not correct, the DNS is a
>> general (if somewhat limited) hierarchical database, and can store
>> almost any kind of data, for almost any purpose.
>> ...
>> 11. Name syntax
>> "
>> The length of any one label is limited to between 1 and 63 octets. A
>> full domain
>> name is limited to 255 octets (including the separators). The zero
>> length full name is defined as representing the root of the DNS =
tree,
>> and is typically written and displayed as ".". Those restrictions
>> aside, any binary string whatever can be used as the label of any
>> resource record.
>> "
>>=20
>> --
>> -JH
>>=20
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> steve pirk
> refiamerica.org
> "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune
> kexp.org member august '09
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