Host name limit to 100 chars

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Sergiu
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Host name limit to 100 chars

Hello,

Is it possible to increase the number chars allowed for the host name?
Right now this is limited to 100 chars.

Regards,
Sergiu

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martouf
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RFC 1035 Section 2.3.4 specifies a FQDN maximum of 255 octets, which for practical reasons, translates to a maximum of 253 ASCII chars.

UTF-8 is now also permissible for hostnames, but because of variable length character encoding, it's not easy to say exactly what the maximum UTF-8 chars would be (depends on the chars used in the hostname).

In any case, no matter if ASCII or UTF-8, a 100 character hostname should not be the maximum, according to the relevant RFC.

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