Re: [RFC] reconsider [PATCH] hostname up to 255 character

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 21:54:14 EST


On 6/23/21 12:16 PM, Matt Hardcastle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In 2006 Randy Dunlap submitted a patch [^1] to increase the supported hostname length to 255 characters. There was some discussion on the patch, but it appeared to go stale.
>
> Are you open to reconsidering the change?
>
> - m@
>
> ^1 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20060525204534.4068e730.rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>

Hi,

Thanks for bringing this back up. Very few people read/reply to LKML unless
they are Cc-ed on the email, so I'll add a few Cc's here.


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~Randy