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From: gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Domain level mail addressing
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.092149.20374@proa.sv.dg.com>
Date: 22 Dec 90 09:21:49 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.153846.3716@cs.umn.edu> <1990Dec21.085628.19753@proa.sv.dg.com> <1990Dec21.194323.7785@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1990Dec21.194323.7785@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
>gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater) writes:
>
>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.

Yes.

>What in particular is irritating about using just the FQDN?

After a series of mail exchanges with Neil W. Rickert of Northern Illinois
University, CS department,  I saw the error of my ways.  I had read the MX
documentation some months ago but not brought it up until now.  I completely
forgot $[ $] (which will qualify a bare host - or even a partially
qualified one).  Given that, there is no problem.  Just a bad case of linear
thinking that got out of control.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary
C++ - it's the right thing to do.