FQDN longer than 32 characters?

[Rune Mossige]

We have lots of hosts where the fully qualified hostname is longer than
32 characters, most are 37 characters.

After playing around with 2.0a15 on a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE host, I see
some strange debug messages, as in:

AddClassToHeap(freebsd)
AddClassToHeap(GSTES9_stavanger_Geco_Prakla_slb_com)
AddClassToHeap(gstes9_stavanger_geco_prakla_slb_com)
AddClassToHeap(stavanger_Geco_Prakla_slb_com)
Truncating fully qualified hostname GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl to
GSTES9
AddClassToHeap(GSTES9)


and later on:
Host name is: GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl
Operating System Type is freebsd
Operating System Release is 4.4-STABLE
Architecture = i386


Using internal soft-class freebsd for host
GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl


and later:

BEGIN NEW ACTION Control Defintions:
HandleId(domain) in action Control Defintions:
LEFTBRACK
HandleItem(stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com)
simple item = (stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com)

(Action is control, storing variable
[domain=stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com])
AddClassToHeap(GSTES9_stavanger_Geco_Prakla_sl_stavanger_geco_prakla_slb_com)


and later:

(BuildClassEnvironment)
Actionsequenc item copy
New server....
Opening server connnection to GSTES9
Trying to connect to GSTES9 = 134.32.72.25, port h=48148
Identifying as 134.32.72.25 i.e.
GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.stavanger.geco-prakla.slb.com, with
signature 0

and later:

Authentic connection verified
Checking copy from GSTES9:/local/repository/cfengine/inputs to
/var/cfengine/inputs
GetLock(copy,_local_repository_cfengine_inputs__var_cfengine_inputs,time=1007718990),
ExpireAfter=120, IfElapsed=1
GetLastLock()
CheckOldLock(lock._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__var_cfengine
_inputs)
Unable to find lock data
lock._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__
var_cfengine_inputs
SetLock(lock._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__var_cfengine_inpu
ts)
PutLock(lock._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__var_cfengine_inpu
ts)
Unable to delete lock
[lock._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__va
r_cfengine_inputs]: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
cf_rstat(/local/repository/cfengine/inputs)
GetCachedStatData(/local/repository/cfengine/inputs)
Did not find in cache
SendTransaction(SYNCH 1007718990 STA...,len=55)
Transaction Send[t 55][SYNCH 1007718990 STA...]
SendSocketStream(63)
SendSocketStream, tosend 63
SendSocketStream, sent 63
RecvSocketStream(8)
    (Concatenated 8 from stream)
    Transaction Receive [t 64][]
    RecvSocketStream(64)
        (Concatenated 64 from stream)
        cfengine:GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl: Server returned error:
        Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name?
        cfengine:GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl: Can't stat
        /local/repository/cfengine/inputs in copy
        
ReleaseCurrentLock(lock._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__var_cf
        engine_inputs)
        
PutLock(last._var_cfengine_inputs_update_conf.100.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.copy._local_repository_cfengine_inputs__var_cfengine_
        inputs)
        LockLog(Lock removed normally )
        Closing current connection
        Saving the setuid log in
        /var/cfengine/cfagent.GSTES9.stavanger.Geco-Prakla.sl.log



It looks like FQDN with more than 32 characters causes some strange
behavious....is this expected? If so, how do I get around that? If not,
how do I fix it?

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