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From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: sendmail, the resolver and /etc/hosts
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Date: 21 Sep 88 17:37:26 GMT
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Greg Woods  writes:

	Face it, folks, it ain't a perfect reality we live in. There
	are hosts and domains out there that were registered before the
	days of name servers, that are legitimately registered, and
	that my users want to send to.

I'm having a real hard time with this one.

I want an example of a "domain out there that was registered before the
days of nameservers" ... the only two I can think of are ".arpa" and
".Berkeley.ARPA" ... for that first one, the NIC maintains the
nameservers for those weary hosts.  For the second, that was a hack
that went away a few years ago.

By definition, "legitimately registered" (as opposed to
illegitimately?) means you have a nameserver out there *somewhere* ...
and you can't get a domain from the NIC without some nameservice ...

Now, if you're simply saying your nameserver doesn't work, that's a
whole different story.

/jordan