On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 7:35 AM Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote:
>
> A perhaps radical suggestion:
>
> Make the server name field fixed length e.g. 256 bytes. Longer
> server names are not supported and clients MUST NOT send them.
> (Both client and server can't use them because they won't fit in
> the fixed length field.)

The limit of server name in DNS is 260 bytes, so that limit already
exists. No reason to shorten it elsewhere!
-- 
"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains".
--Rousseau.

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