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From: gaguiar@Encore.COM (George Aguiar-Consultant)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail, named and me
Message-ID: <14002@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 91 15:11:13 GMT
Reply-To: gaguiar@encore.Com (George Aguiar)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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When sendmail asks the name server to resolve a hostname, does it require
an authoritative answer?  ie. is a non-authoritative answer grounds for
an "Unknown host"?

Should the name server on a domain server be able to resolve a simple
name of a host that is within the domain server's domain?

For example:

	domain = a.com
	domain server = b.a.com
	machines within the domain a.com = b, c, d, & f	

	on machine b.a.com I want to send mail to c, d or e

The host token to the mailer ( ^W ) is c, d, or e not c.a.com, d.a.com
or e.a.com.  Should sendmail on b.a.com fail when trying to sendmail
to c,d  or e because the name server gives an non-authoritative
answer??

Should the named be able to give an authoritative replay to simple hostnames
within it's domain?  ( ie. Maybe it currently isn't configured properly. )

Thanks,
--gaguiar