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From: Richard Perini
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:20

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What is The Right Thing to do with ...oz.au addresses that fail DNS lookup?

Currently my sendmail expects to resolve oz.au addresses via the DNS.
If I really want an ACSnet site then .oz (no .au) will cause sendmail
to dump the message on ACSnet.  This just happens to be rather simple 
to set up with IDA sendmail.

There are some (many?) sites that exist on ACSnet that don't have MX records
so mail addressed to them using ...oz.au bounces.  Currently, when this
happens I just send a short note suggesting the sender retry using ...oz.

How do others handle this?  Is it even worth worrying about?

-- 
Richard Perini                                             Phone: +61 2 9064333
Corinthian Engineering                                       Fax: +61 2 9061556
Sydney, Australia                                       Internet: rpp@ci.com.au

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From: rpp@rilin.ci.COM.AU (Richard Perini)
Newsgroups: aus.mail
Subject: oz.au addresses
Message-ID: <442@rilin.ci.COM.AU>
Date: 13 Oct 92 11:20:24 GMT
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Organization: Corinthian Engineering, Sydney, Australia
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