Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 10:30:50 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@key.net.au> To: "Jordyn A. Buchanan" <jordyn@bestweb.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS strangeness Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970506102803.11843B-100000@house.key.net.au> In-Reply-To: <v03102810af940e7d00f4@[208.197.0.27]>
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote: > We're having a problem sending mail to a particular domain (pcnet-inc.com) > because sendmail is telling us that their mail exchanger is not a known > host. However, note the following results on the machine that's trying to <snip> > Non-authoritative answer: > pcnet-inc.com preference = 0, mail exchanger = viewtek_comm1.pcnet-inc.com AFAIK '_' is an unallowable character in a host name...perhaps that is your problem. You could always try to send mail to <whoever>@[<IP address>] and suggest they change their name... Andrew
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