From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEFCC49EA6 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F64613B9 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232992AbhFYB42 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:56:28 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57530 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232917AbhFYB41 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:56:27 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98133C061574 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:54:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:Cc:References:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=X8kmuSqklf87h0pKfcyRyBJozjhEjI8e85R3dlzwnEM=; b=GkaoiSB40JuyWkeP8HVfUrU5KG vfqWbnx8l3rjebZuCwqCBFaWCJJrCXuqCAH6KPO2llk3+4T8hpCQWjJTpgw5bR0bmJXOqUp7W+fNm 556G8Wol3r+h8P0i4cAM6Fxjsv3t3hPR/0sRPUH7lUQdC6rBd1BiZ6MgOWNzgVpl2CjLG0Y7TYWsd JMq7dc1UoWAW22gK2fEPXV3Kc4AcRLHFr+HqSGf0OnpuUL4EsbRJso6PwybZj7dEbwbioyGIfI96Q hYYycyHlbt7AGOXzB/gOOOPu+UU+AITMQQJGk5eSjHtz0CyK7HQECb3S66QQghUH9IotR8p5HL8qf 4dBotb/g==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::aefb] by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lwb2Z-00H4MY-3U; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:53:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] reconsider [PATCH] hostname up to 255 character To: Matt Hardcastle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , drepper@redhat.com, Jan-Benedict Glaw , Jan Engelhardt From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <7f5cbd89-7008-7da7-2329-8b91753a02d1@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:53:54 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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@xenotime.net/ > 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. -- ~Randy