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- From: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 08:52:25 +0200
- Organization: Dept. Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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- Message-ID: <1hbmn9INNgrk@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
- References: <b8jMrA7ABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <e539VB6w165w@willard.UUCP>
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- In article <e539VB6w165w@willard.UUCP>,
- dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson) writes:
- > For what it's worth, I've come across the same problem, mailer software
- > querying DNS on host.UUCP, on several "Internet" hosts. If we accept
- > the statement (from more than one participant on these newsgroups) that
- > .UUCP is INVALID (typically shouted, as if that would make it somehow
- > more logical), the Internet hosts surely have no business in querying
- > DNS for that domain, yes?
-
- An Internet host cannot *know* that .UUCP in invalid unless it either
- queries the DNS and gets back an error indication
- or has special-case information somehow installed in its configuration.
-
- A good argument can be made for avoiding special-case information, and
- Internet hosts that believe such an argument have every right to query
- the DNS for *everything*, including .UUCP sites. They will, of course,
- get back an error indication, which will tell them that the domain is
- invalid, and they will accordingly bounce the improperly addressed mail.
-
- > We likely all agree on that one.
-
- Apparently not.
-
- --apb
- Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
- RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za Bang: m2xenix!undeed!barrett
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