[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#449575: smbfs: mount.cifs does not support long hostnames

[Rafael Jesus Alcantara Perez]

Package: smbfs
Version: 3.0.24-6etch4
Severity: normal

When you use a long hostname in the 'ip' parameter like
'AAAAAAAAAAAA.BBBBBBBBBB.example.com' mount.cifs aborts saying 'ip address
too long'. As far as Google knows, the maximum length of a domain name can be 255
octets, so it seems that 36 is too far from that limit (RFC 1034).

Thanks in advance for your work in this almost perfect GNU/Linux distro :)
Rafael. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages smbfs depends on:
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-13etch2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-7etch4                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.3                     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  netbase  4.29                            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  samba-co 3.0.24-6etch4                   Samba common files used by both th

smbfs recommends no packages.

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