[190734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: number of characters in a domain?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Sat Jul 23 10:01:42 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 16:01:06 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <90A5954E-1F29-40E1-9890-3635521CCF28@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:35:57AM -0400,
Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote
a message of 12 lines which said:
> I would consult RFC1035 for the label sizes, but the total length
> can include multiple labels up to 255 in length. Check section 2.3.4
On another mailing list, Marc Blanchet noticed the limit in the RFC is
255 octets, not characters, which make a difference if you use IDN :-)
