{"id":27940,"date":"2026-03-04T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/docs\/what-is-the-character-limit-for-dns-entries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:07:26","password":"","slug":"what-is-the-character-limit-for-dns-entries","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/docs\/what-is-the-character-limit-for-dns-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the character limit for DNS entries?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The DNS server (BIND) accepts no more than 255 characters per entry.<\/p>\n\n<p>DKIM should therefore be used by dividing the TXT entry into several fields whose size is less than 255 (&#8220;First part&#8221; &#8220;Second part&#8221;). <\/p>\n\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image2016-8-19-163323.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DNS server (BIND) accepts no more than 255 characters per entry. DKIM should therefore be used by dividing the TXT entry into several fields whose size is less than 255 (&#8220;First part&#8221; &#8220;Second part&#8221;). Example:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[136],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-27940","docs","type-docs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","doc_category-web-hosting"],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":34,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Support","author_nicename":"support","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/author\/support\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Web hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/docs-category\/web-hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30213,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27940\/revisions\/30213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=27940"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=27940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}