[geeks] A puzzling mail error

Jeff Cole jeff at flambe.org
Fri Jun 27 14:48:30 CDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:48:10PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> so "HELO com" doesn't work.  I'm guessing -- perhaps incorrectly -- that
> this may be in part to disambiguate "com" the host from "com" the TLD,
> or perhaps "com" my host from "com" your host.  I'll now pause to reflect
> on the implications of host com in subdomain com in TLD com, thus com.com.com,
> and how very badly that would make my head hurt if I had to debug the
> DNS setup for it.

Cnet has com.com, so, if you go to cnet.com, you actually go to
cnet.com.com. Bizzare.

Jeff



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