Search Again: Re: 67 character domain names From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 Time: 2:53:00 am At 8:37 PM -0600 1/10/2000, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >Men & Mice Support said: > >>At 7:56 PM -0600 1/10/2000, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >>>Now that domains can be 67 characters long, how pray-tell does one set >>>this up with QDNS, keeping in mind that the Mac seems to have a slight >>>difficulty with long file names? >> >>Since when does the domain name system support _67_ characters in a >>name? Or do you mean something like "<63-char name>.com"? As far as I >>know, the restriction to 63 characters for any subdomain name >>described in RFC 1035 still stands. > >Ok, let me be a bit more specific: You are allowed a 63 character "base" >name plus the .com .net .org for a total of 67. >> >>In any case, the answer is to abbreviate your file names. If your >>domain name, including all parent domains, comes to more than 31 >>characters, use Save As the first time you save the domain, rather >>than Save, and give it a legal filename. > >Ok, perhaps, I need you to be a bit more specific, my brain cannot take >much more today. I have created a domain name called: > >thelongestdomainnamepossible1111111111111111111111111111111111.com > >I did as you suggest, or so I thought, but it does not work. Sure I can >save the domain name in QDNS, but the file name itself is not saveable at >this length. > >Am I missing something? I'm really not sure what the problem is. I created a file using the domain name you created (above), then Save'd it. I didn't even use Save As.... QuickDNS Pro Admin created a file for the domain called "thelongestdomainnamepossible1 1". I then created another domain, with one less digit in the name. Again, I Save'd it. QuickDNS Pro Admin created another file, called "thelongestdomainnamepossible1 2". So what's the problem? ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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