number of characters in a domain?

Sat Jul 23 14:01:06 UTC 2016

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:35:57AM -0400,
 Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> I would consult RFC1035 for the label sizes, but the total length
> can include multiple labels up to 255 in length. Check section 2.3.4

On another mailing list, Marc Blanchet noticed the limit in the RFC is
255 octets, not characters, which make a difference if you use IDN :-)