Re: Virtual Host Doesn't Like An Entry

[Stephanie Wright <swright@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Just curious, Stephanie. Is there a way around this?

Not that I know of, but I will look into it. OS X will take of it I 
think, since it's the Finder that imposes the limit, I believe, 
rather than the file system itself.

> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Last night I attempted to enter a new Virtual Host but all I could get
> > > was an error telling me there was no DNS information. Taking it all in
> > > stride I double checked my information with the DNS servers and the even
> > > double checked with the NSI Registry and everything was in place
> > > correctly. But I still could not add the domain to the Virtual Host. I
> > > then deleted the DNS entries, restarted both servers, entered the DNS
> > > info a second time copying and pasting the name to make sure there were
> > > no spelling problems, but the Virtual Host still rejects the domain. It
> > > is a long name 35 characters including the www. and .com, so maybe that
> > > has something to do with the problem. Any suggestions?
> >
> > You hit it right on the mark.
> >
> > There is a defined limit of 63 characters (plus four for .com or 
> > .net or whatever) in DNS (as defined by the RFC1035).
> >
> > As it happens, Netscape can't deal with domain names that long so 
> > they don't work very well in the real world.
> >
> > In WebTen, the files for DNS are stored, with a name of 
> > "db.your-domain-name.com", for example, and that is subject to the 
> > Mac OS filenames limit of 32 characters.
> > --
> >     Stephanie J. Wright
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