Search Again: Re: 67 character domain names From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 Time: 3:16:00 am Men & Mice Support said: >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? Well, yes, this did indeed work for me as well. the problem is, when I upload it to my QDNS server, and reboot, the domain does not work when called in a web browser. jer "On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, and Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony." And Windows98 Crashed! Hey, I bought my Apple Stock @ $18, WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!!!

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