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- From: dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <F7skwB1w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 03:35:50 GMT
- References: <1hbmn9INNgrk@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
- Lines: 46
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- barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett) writes:
-
- > [Redirecting away from comp.bbs.waffle]
- >
- > 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.
-
- Except that .UUCP is not a valid top-level domain (is it?). I don't have
- all the RFC's, so I don't know from personal knowledge, but I've been
- told that.
-
- > 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.
-
- If .UUCP is not a part of the Internet, and if DNS only applies to intra-
- domain routing, what sense does it make to query DNS for site.UUCP?
-
- > 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.
-
- Which is inconsistent, given that other sites on the Internet can send to
- site.UUCP.
-
- > > We likely all agree on that one.
- >
- > Apparently not.
-
- Yes, I apparently spoke too soon.
-
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