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Re: Underscores in host names

  • From: Mark Andrews
  • Date: Wed May 18 20:41:40 2005 
In article <[email protected]> you write:
>
>There are also mail domains to consider. They have superficially the same
>syntax as host names (they cannot have a trailing dot) but they are
>generally checked much more strictly for conformance to that syntax. I'm
>not sure whether the original post was about a mail domain or the name of
>a mail host, but if it was the former I would be surprised if the customer
>could claim that it works most of the time.

	Hostnames can't have a dot at the end either.  The dot at the
	end is a local resolver indication to not use the search list.

	Mark