Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!riscit.NOC.Vitalink.COM!ejm From: ejm@riscit.NOC.Vitalink.COM (Erik J. Murrey) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: name handling in DNS resolvers Message-ID: <1991May21.215808.11913@iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM> Date: 21 May 91 21:58:08 GMT References: <9105171533.AA01010@asylum.asylum.sf.ca.us> Sender: usenet@iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM (USENET News Admin) Organization: Vitalink Communications, Fremont, California Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: riscit.noc.vitalink.com In article , enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: |> Erik J. Murrey writes: |> | |> | Ahh, but most recursive searching resolver libraries can be forced |> | not to append successive domains by anchoring the name with a |> | period. |> |> This is illegal in mail addresses. |> Arguably, MTA's shouldn't do any user-friendly heuristics on mail addresses at all. I would hope that the UA will form FQDN's to work with. Otherwise, you might run into the wildcard MX problems... --- Erik J. Murrey Vitalink Communications NOC ejm@NOC.Vitalink.COM ...!uunet!NOC.Vitalink.COM!ejm