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Article #2810Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts
From: Jordan Hayes
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1988 17:37
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1988 17:37
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Greg Woods <woods@handies.UCAR.EDU> writes: Face it, folks, it ain't a perfect reality we live in. There are hosts and domains out there that were registered before the days of name servers, that are legitimately registered, and that my users want to send to. I'm having a real hard time with this one. I want an example of a "domain out there that was registered before the days of nameservers" ... the only two I can think of are ".arpa" and ".Berkeley.ARPA" ... for that first one, the NIC maintains the nameservers for those weary hosts. For the second, that was a hack that went away a few years ago. By definition, "legitimately registered" (as opposed to illegitimately?) means you have a nameserver out there *somewhere* ... and you can't get a domain from the NIC without some nameservice ... Now, if you're simply saying your nameserver doesn't work, that's a whole different story. /jordan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!zodiac!zooks!jordan From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts Message-ID: <5508@zodiac.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 17:37:26 GMT References: <729@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP Reply-To: jordan@ads.com (Jordan Hayes) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 23