On 2009-11-28 at 15:05 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > > Just as a minor heads-up, you're talking to the author/co-author of, > > whoops! uncloaked. i am just another bozo on this bus. > > the hostname pissing contest is way old. i fall on the liberal side. > e.g. in this case, some poor end user stuck an underscore in their > config. i just can't expect them to be well-versed in hostname arcana. > to the best of my memory, that HELO check was just to catch when there > is no fqdn. > > and, for your daily pedantic amusement, in pure dns, foo.bar.com might > reall be "foo.bar," a single lhs name, in the com domain. dns is 8-bit > clean, with segments having lenth, not being dot delimited. so dots can > be in name segments.
I have a test zone with such interesting items in it. test.globnix.net. % host foo.bar.test.globnix.net foo.bar.test.globnix.net has address 192.0.2.3 % host 'foo\.bar.test.globnix.net' foo\.bar.test.globnix.net has address 192.0.2.4 % host 'shoot-self-in-foot\..test.globnix.net' shoot-self-in-foot\..test.globnix.net has address 192.0.2.6 % host 'Philip Pennock woz ere.test.globnix.net' Philip\032Pennock\032woz\032ere.test.globnix.net has address 192.0.2.5 Interesting seeing what breaks. -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
