Look no further than RFC 821/RFC 822 (about Domain Literals). No way
obscure :)
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Juno.Com Postmaster/Abuse Desk, Hyderabad India
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Babu Kalakrishnan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 4:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] sendmail host name lookup failure
>
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:11:35AM +0530, Kedar Patankar typed:
>
> The correct usage is DS[202.56.230.1]
> Sendmail accepts numeric IP address only if they're enclosed within square
>
> brackets. Found this info in some obscure corner in the sendmail
> documentation
> while I was investigating the same problem a long time ago.
>
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