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From: rrichter@rphroy.uucp (Roy Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: long names, from dnet.test
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Date: 12 Jul 90 19:44:44 GMT
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In article <EMV.90Jul11221436@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu>,
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
|> 
|> What is the record for 'longest domain name in actual practice'?  
|>
|>     pk@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de
|>    ars@tumuc.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
I guess they use short usernames to make up for it.

Hey, I can beat that without trying:

koiasvr01.iac.delcoelect.component.gmeds.com

is 44 long, and it's even in the maps! (under koiasvr01).  Steve Lodin
claims "some problems" occur occasionally.  Now, this is in actual
practice...but not fully nsfnet-connected (at least not yet).

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