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Peter Morton (peter@pmorton.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> hi,
> It's been suggested by the folks in demon.ip.support that the
> following is posted here :- 
> 
> I'm trying to find the maximum length allowed for a domain name -
> presuming there is one?  I'm suffering from RFC overload on this one
> and although I expected it to be in the "Internet Encyclopedia",  a
> few searches haven't revealed the information (and as it's a 7Meg file
> I don't want to download it!).
> Demon announced a while back that 16 character fields were acceptable
> for our host names,  but what about the "Demon" field (8?), the com,
> edu, ac, field (3?) and the country, aus, uk (3?).
> Also, are there just the four fields allowed,e.g.
> pmorton.demon.co.uk  or is this expandable further - 
> subdomain.pmorton.demon.co.uk ?
> Any pointers appreciated. Thanks.

Defensive programming - Avoid the issue and dynamically assign the
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