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- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.185932.29142@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
- References: <b8jMrA7ABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <e539VB6w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 18:59:32 GMT
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- In article <?@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson) writes:
- > ... various stuff ...
- Private E-mail to him produces the "bounce" message:
- ---
- Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 255
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 13:44:49 -0500
- From: MAILER-DAEMON@mathcs.emory.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- uux failed. code -1
- 554 <dawson@willard.waffle.atl.ga.us>... unknown mailer error 255
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- ----- Unsent message follows -----
- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
-
- In article <e539VB6w165w@willard.UUCP> you write:
- >We likely all agree on that one. But, how do we make that information
- >common knowledge?
-
- Well, define UUCP as a valid-domain,
- and put it into the top-level name-servers.
- Then, every query will return an **authoritative** "not found" result.
- A "smart" name-server will put the "not found" response into its cache,
- and will never bother the root name-server for a long time!
-