Domain Name too long? - Problems

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From: Tobias R (TobiasR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/28/04

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    Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:53:03 -0800

    Hello,

    for one of our clients, we configured a domain name that contains 16
    characters (because that's what their normal e-Mail address part is) - is
    that too long?

    We didn't run into any problems when configuring the system; however, when I
    wanted to connect the clients, this wasn't possible because there were
    allegedly DNS problems - the clients couldn't find the domain.

    Therefore I have got two questions - and I would be happy if anyone could
    help me in finding an answer to them:

    a.) What can we do to fix this problem? Is there any "easy" way out for
    changing the domain name or do we have to reinstall the entire SBS? And if we
    change the name, should we / do we need to "reserve" this domain name as a
    real domain name in the Internet, too?

    b.) How can we make sure that the client's "normal" eMail-address is also
    accepted on the server and that the outgoing mail is sent with the "normal",
    i.e. long eMail-address?

    Thanks a lot for any help with these issues!

    Tobias.

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