How do I find the maximum length for server hostname?

[Former Member]

I just inherited some legacy code that uses SQL Anywhere. The server name is truncated, whenever constructed, to 30 characters. This causes problems for some users. I want to find out if this is a SQLA limitation, but haven't found a definitive answer in last day of searching.

[Breck_Carter]

@Ben S: Why do you divide 250 bytes by 8 bytes?

[graeme_perrow]

The limit was 40 bytes except for shared memory on unix, which was 31 bytes. This was bumped to 250 bytes in version 10.

[Former Member]

If my hazey memory recalls correctly versions prior to 10 restricted the length of the servername parameter. I think it was 40 bytes