Re: FQDN

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 12:12:08AM +0000, Herb Martin wrote:
> Apparently their is a newer RFC -- something in the
> Win2003 docs listed this as a new feature of the DNS
> server -- for longer RR (maybe not longer names) and
> negotiating the UDP packet size (instead of 500 octets?)
>
> Win2000+ is starting to need this since they are using
> the _underscore subdomains for sites and services (SRV
> records), as well as GUIDs for alternate DC names.
>
> Sorry, don't recall the RFC number.
>
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2671.html

Though it's really necessitated more by IPv6 than by the use of long
FQDNs in an IPv4 world.