Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!samsung!usc!csun!mx.csun.edu!mrs From: mrs@mx.csun.edu (Mike Stump) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Philosophical question Message-ID: <1990Oct24.070916.12899@csun.edu> Date: 24 Oct 90 07:09:16 GMT References: <9010231539.AA06606@quetzalcoatl.erg.sri.com> Sender: news@csun.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: mrs@secs.csun.edu (Mike Stump) Distribution: inet Organization: School of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Northridge Lines: 21 In article <9010231539.AA06606@quetzalcoatl.erg.sri.com> davy@erg.sri.com writes: > >Here's a philosophical question: > > Should there be an A record for a domain name itself? > >For example, our domain name is erg.sri.com. You can send mail to >"user@erg.sri.com" since there's an MX record, but you can't say "ftp >erg.sri.com", since there's no A record. You have to FTP to a >specific host. Here is a simple question, Do you want ``finger you@subdomain.domain.com'' to work? I do. For it to work, there needs to be an A record. -- If I can get mail to you via a legally registered fully qualified domain name, you could be on Saturn for all I care. -- quote by Bob Sutterfield