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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Domain level mail addressing
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.194323.7785@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 19:43:23 GMT
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gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater) writes:

>In article <1990Dec20.153846.3716@cs.umn.edu> peiffer@cs.umn.edu (Tim Peiffer "The Net Guy") writes:
>>R$*<@$=w>$*		$:$1<@LOCAL>$3
>
>Well, sure. But what if class w doesn't contain the unqualified name of the host?
>I just brought up the UIUC version of sendmail 5.65 and it only defines the FQDN.
>Also, the Suns around here running the MX sendmail do the same thing. This was
>very irritating and took a major kludge to work around.

In the UIUC/NIU IDA sendmail, class w does contain the UUCP version of the
hostname.  If a bare host name cannot be qualified into a domain, it's
punted to the .UUCP domain.  Names for the localhost will have been qualified
into the local domain before the ruleset above is used anyway.

What in particular is irritating about using just the FQDN?

/pbp
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