What is the real maximum length of a DNS name? (2012)
1 points by Halkcyon
1 points by Halkcyon
On the other hand, the maximum length in text format is 4x what you might expect because every non-.-separator can be written as a \decimal escape.
(Tangential aside: \decimal escapes are weird and rare: almost everything is \octal other than the DNS, Lua, and OCaml.)