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@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 > -- > Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure / > Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice) > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- eMail: mailto:rlha...@smart.net _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss