[80928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A. Ulevitch)
Thu May 19 00:47:47 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505181754050.13472@sokol.elan.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David A. Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
<quote who="william(at)elan.net">
> Since changing SMTP2821 and waiting until everyone complies and accepts
> email addresses with no "." is not an option, the solutions proposed are
> to either have address like "postmaster@.tv" or "postmaster@tv."
>
> The only reason it has not been discussed more actively is that no TLD
> operator has yet come forward and said that they are going to use
> TLD host for emails, but as soon as one does this would have to be
> accommodated and quickly (otherwise it will remain as an open issue for
> future update to SMTP - probably RFC4821 if this numbering continues :)
>
.ws has an MX record.
host -t mx ws. ==> mail.worldsite.ws
Most MUA's (unix ones tended to work, not surprisingly) complain or break
on "send" but technically it works. :)
Thanks,
David Ulevitch
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