From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36414 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sender header? Date: 25 May 2001 12:06:08 -0400 Sender: prj@multivac.cwru.edu Message-ID: References: <01May23.141128edt.115245@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.115917edt.115250@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.143521edt.115214@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.153439edt.115213@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.163305edt.115259@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.172056edt.115272@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172002 8448 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:46:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16591 invoked by alias); 25 May 2001 16:06:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16586 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 16:06:08 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 May 2001 16:06:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28840 invoked by uid 500); 25 May 2001 16:06:30 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: "\(ding\)" In-Reply-To: (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "24 May 2001 21:30:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 46 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36414 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36414 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * Barry Fishman on Thu, 24 May 2001 >| My login@fqdn is "barry@ecube.local". > > *snrk*. > > That is not a legal fqdn, or did someone create the "local" TLD when I > blinked? :) Creating a TLD is easy. Getting ICANN's root servers to serve it is the hard part. :) >| The closest thing to a local mail address is my pop server address >| "barry_fishman@att.net". I connect to the internet using a PPP >| connection PAP authentication with a variety of addresses. At the moment >| I'm at "12.78.17.131", but this varies each call and is probably bogus >| anyway. I send mail by direct smtp connection to mailhost.att.net. > > The IP is not bogus. The fact that AT&T has no A record for it is bogus. We don't know whether there's an A record with that address, because we don't know what name to look up to find out; we only know that there's no PTR record for the name 131.17.78.12.in-addr.arpa. Please stop pretending to know about DNS. > That is probably a real pain when you hit an SSH server that refuses your > connection because it cannot do a reverse IP lookup. Maybe his provider gives him some way around that. Since we don't know, we can't say that this setup is bogus. > There should be an A record in att.net's DNS associated with that IP, and > it should include that name in the DHCP packet it gives you when you make > your dialup connection. FAYK, this is already the case. > Your host should set its name to the name specified in that packet > for the duration of the session. I don't agree. The host should use the hostname provided by DHCP for dealings with that same network, but not necessarily globally, nor on other networks the host may be on. paul