Xref: utzoo news.config:1073 comp.mail.misc:1557 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.config,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: List of sites posted from that are not on the UUCP map Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 89 14:49:12 GMT References: <2803@epimass.EPI.COM> <6854@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 24 In-reply-to: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US's message of 19 Jan 89 19:56:49 GMT wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner) writes: >handel.colostate.edu. The DNS strips trailing periods, so this name is theoretically valid. DNS, yes, but not SMTP. Witness a DEC-20 running MAISER: [67] [9:10am] tut:/n/dinosaur/0/karl> telnet osu-20 smtp Trying... Connected to osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 220-osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu SMTP Service 6.1(242) at Fri 20 Jan 89 09:39:42-EST 220 Bugs/Gripes to Bug-MAISER@PANDA.COM helo tut 250 osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu - Hello, tut.cis.ohio-state.edu mail from: >>>>> 500 Syntax error or field too long: mail from: quit 221 osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu Service closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host. This behavior is RFC-conformant. Names ending with `.' are no-nos. --Karl