Search Again: Re: DNS character limit From: Steve Linford Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 Time: 3:16:37 am From Men & Mice Support, received 23/06/2000, 1:54 am +0100 (GMT): > At 10:47 AM -0500 6/22/00, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: > >Suzanne Swift said: > > > >>Is there a limit to the number of characters in a domain name that QUICK > >>DNS can handle? > >> > >>Thanks in advance for your answer! > > > >I'm too lazy to count, but one of our customers recently had us set up a > >zone with this whopper: human-resource-consulting-training.com > > > >I would imagine that you can support as many characters as the NIC allows. > > QuickDNS doesn't impose a limit. > > The RFC's impose a limit of 64 characters per label, where a label is > any part of a domain name between or before or after dots, with no > dots in the middle. Talking of long DNS names, a favourite spammer trick now is to use incredibly long host names to throw people off track, and some of them are pushing every DNS trick in the book. For a real laugh try a zone transfer (axfr) query on efza.com (a major spamhaus). Steve Linford ________________________________________________________________________ Ultradesign Xperimental Network http://www.uxn.com

Messages In This Thread: DNS character limit by Suzanne Swift on Jun 22, 2000 at 8:33:34 am Re: DNS character limit by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jun 22, 2000 at 8:52:45 am Re: DNS character limit by Men & Mice Support on Jun 22, 2000 at 6:03:49 pm Re: DNS character limit by Aaron Lynch on Jun 22, 2000 at 6:10:21 pm Re: DNS character limit by Men & Mice Support on Jun 22, 2000 at 6:12:40 pm Re: DNS character limit by Aaron Lynch on Jun 22, 2000 at 6:27:01 pm Re: DNS character limit by Steve Linford on Jun 23, 2000 at 3:16:37 am