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[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Pekka Savola wrote:
> I thought some DNS RFC stated that the maximum length of the hostname was
> 255 characters...

It's 255 bytes, not character. An important distinction considering
multibyte hostnames will be allowed soon. From what I remember that
255 byte limit is supposed to disappear as well.

Wichert.

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