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| Great explanation from the "The Old New Thing" MSDN blog. What is the real maximum length of a DNS name? - 12 Apr 2012 7:00 AM - http://blogs.msdn.com/.
253 characters. The encoding requires the length of each label to be encoded (typically where each . goes). The first label and the root (end) label take 2 octets from the 255 octet (not character) maximum. US ASCII leaves you with 253 characters (including the dots in the middle which are lengths). Of course if you have a DNS entry in UTF-8 then things are different. |
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