[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch v3-2-test updated - initial-v3-2-unstable-241-g2a01737

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Nov 9 05:03:27 GMT 2007


On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:57:31PM -0500, simo wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 19:28 -0600, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >  #ifndef HOST_NAME_MAX
> > -#define HOST_NAME_MAX 64
> > +#define HOST_NAME_MAX 255
> >  #endif
> 
> I assume this is the size of a single hostname component.
> Per RFC any single DNS name component can be 64 chars at most with the
> full DNS name being 255 at most.
> 
> So a 64 byte limit for each single component is correct (if this was
> used for the full hostname it is of course wrong).

We weren't differentiating between the two cases.

Jeremy.


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