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query re IPv6 URL format
- Subject: query re IPv6 URL format
- From: [email protected] (Brian E Carpenter)
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:36:07 +0100
- In-reply-to: <v03110714b06964ba58ac@[171.69.116.90]> from "Steve Deering" at Oct 14, 97 11:08:28 am
>- Steve Deering said:
>
> What's the limit on the length of a DNS label (not the whole DNS name,
> but the thing that goes between the dots in a DNS name)? Is it less than
> 32, by any chance?
32 is not a problem, but a hex number looks like a name and gets
sent off for DNS resolving. For example when I ask Netscape for
http://abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890
it attaches my default domain and says:
Fatal Error 500
Can't Access Document:
http://abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890.hursley.ibm.com/.
Reason: Can't locate remote host:
abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890.hursley.ibm.com.
Brian