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From: wrl@wdl1.wdl.fac.com (Bill Lewandowski)
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Subject: Re: "Path"
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Date: 23 Oct 90 15:21:06 GMT
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leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes:

>Don Lewis writes:
>> If you are posting from the other hosts using the mini-inews supplied
>> with nntp and gethostbyname() does not return a fully qualified domain
>> name for the current host (as on Suns using YP/NIS), [...]

>If this is your problem then the hosts file you're loading into the yp
>map is wrong. The h_name field of the hostnet struct is supposed to be
>the official (read canonical) name of the host. This means that you
>really want the fully qualified domain name first:

>	128.3.112.36    dog.ee.lbl.gov dog

>it breaks more than the mini-inews if the "alias" appears first.

>		Craig

Well Craig I have to differ from you. We have used the unqualified name
or aliases for all our YP domains with no problems. This actually has helped
us out. We identify each host by the alias for all YP functions. Using the
fully qualified name in the past had problems.

For mail, the sendmail.cf file qualifies the name when need be. No mail
can leave without being qualified.

Don Lewis was right that my problem is I dont use fully qualified
names and thus my return paths get screwwed up. Now, the return path should not
be used for replies via mail but some systems seem to use them. I have
not figured this one out yet. The originator shows the fully qualified
name of the sender (I guess that come from cnews and the config in
/usr/lib/news.

I guess I have to live with my unqualified names because we are not going to
redo our YP in 6 domains and over 300 hosts.

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