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| author | David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> | 2008-09-15 12:10:13 -1000 |
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| committer | David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> | 2008-09-15 12:10:13 -1000 |
| commit | 1bc0e782a381b51adb0070ea5d31ed418e0d85ba (patch) | |
| tree | 9bf73d6af6e5da4bc6ef8e5aeae3eab8fb47cfb1 /network.py | |
| parent | e87ffe53f8022c086613487b848ce7bb1205bcad (diff) | |
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Use POSIX and LSB hostname length limit.
Going with 255 for now even though this seems to be loosely
defined on Linux. POSIX specifies 255 as the max length, but
Linux doesn't seem to have a maximum. But LSB likes the POSIX
specification, so we'll stick with that.
Diffstat (limited to 'network.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | network.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/network.py b/network.py index e05109fe7..e3a87672e 100644 --- a/network.py +++ b/network.py @@ -51,10 +51,8 @@ def sanityCheckHostname(hostname): if len(hostname) < 1: return None - # XXX: POSIX says this limit is 255, but Linux also defines HOST_NAME_MAX - # as 64, so I don't know which we should believe. --dcantrell - if len(hostname) > 64: - return _("Hostname must be 64 or fewer characters in length.") + if len(hostname) > 255: + return _("Hostname must be 255 or fewer characters in length.") validStart = string.ascii_letters + string.digits validAll = validStart + ".-" |