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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Garey Smiley <ga...@main.slink.com> on 1997/03/23 17:01:37 UTC

max hostname length?

Whats the maximum hostname length?


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Re: max hostname length?

Posted by Chuck Murcko <ch...@topsail.org>.

Garey Smiley wrote:
> 
> Whats the maximum hostname length?
> 
Depends on the OS. Usually

#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN  256             /* max hostname size */

in /usr/include/sys/param.h.

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