[109] in Hesiod
hesiod nameserver limitations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Wohletz)
Fri Nov 6 01:54:49 1992
To: hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 22:47:30 -0800
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.cs.unlv.edu>
I recently ran into a strange problem when a group entry went beyond a
certain length (it was < 256 chars, but > 127). I thought the limit
on TXT records was 256 characters. Am I mistaken, or perhaps are
there signed chars in the nameserver or resolver code where there
shouldn't be effectively reducing the limit to 127? Or is something
else going on? The symptoms were garbled packets (apparently) being
returned whenever the record for that group was queried.
--Greg
