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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 05:35:31 -0800 (PST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
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Subject: Re: DNS goofups galore...
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	Hello Matti ,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
 ...snip...
> Answer to the self-education question above:
>
>   The NAME fields in usual BIND systems get appended the current $ORIGIN
>   string value when the data in the field does not end with a dot:
>
>   Wrong:     IN MX 10  11.22.33.44
>   "Right":   IN MX 10  11.22.33.44.
    s/"Right"/Wrong/

	(in the forward file)
	Right:				IN MX 10  mymail.mydomain.com.
	Right:mymail.mydomain.com.	IN A	11.22.33.44

	(in a in-addr.arpa file)
	Right:44	IN PTR	mymail.mydomain.com.

>   The second appears at DNS lookup as "IN MX 10 11.22.33.44", which
>   is the intention aiming to use quite common misfeatures of system
>   libraries.  THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF IT WORKING AT NON-UNIX SYSTEMS!
>   Indeed there is no guarantee of it working at UNIX systems either!
	True ! .	Hth ,  JimL

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