On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Steve Deering wrote: > 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? Why not use dots instead of colons and some prefix (e.g. another dot) or square brackets (like in the old ka9q nos days) to distinguish them from dns names? Kai