On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:15:29AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
| On 2004-02-06 17:31:21 -0500, David Clymer wrote:
| > for instance, when communicating with a remote host, it would seem to me
| > that the logical hostname to supply (as a self reference) would be a
| > hostname which is resolvable via DNS rather than an /etc/hosts alias
| > which is inaccessable to the remote host and can contain (and rightly
| > so) a hostname resolving to 127.0.0.1.
|
| Not necessarily. It depends on the type of communication. For the
| HELO command, the FQDN doesn't have to be resolvable
That depends on who's mail server you connect to. Some admins require
the HELO parameter to be resolvable, and some even require it to
resolve to the IP of the machine making the connection. Most don't,
though.
-D
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