[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Richard L. Hamilton]

That must be something with the user interface for configuration, because the "domainname" command allows 256 characters (257 including a terminating null byte, maybe). Even if you go by something else that says 64, it's still a lot bigger than 15.

> On Apr 22, 2021, at 17:47, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death, Nelson H. F....:
> 
>> There was one nit: at the point that it asks for a domain name, it
>> cuts it off at 15 characters, which is way too small.  See
>> 
>>   https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
>>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname
>>   https://web.archive.org/web/20190518124533/https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=7873
> 
> I'm not positive about this, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it's asking not for DNS domain but instead the NIS domain.
> Because of Solaris' lengthy history with NIS/YP, and because a lot of sites
> never really went for the replacement (NIS+), I think it's asking for a
> NIS domainname.
> 
> See domainname(1m) and defaultdomain(4) on an installed system.
> 
> Tim
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