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>--- Chad Brown <chadsbrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>Mon May  1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id:
>>>unable to gethostbyname("cathy@alfa.alfanet.com")
>>>      
>>>
>>is your hostname really "cathy@alfa.alfanet.com"? 
>>type "hostname" in a shell.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
> dharam paul wrote:
>
>Yes, it is. But the machine is meant only for local
>intranet. Am I wrng to give this name?
>
>Regards
>dp
>
If having an @ in a hostname isn't illegal, it ought to be.  I can't be 
bothered to start searching the RFCs for you, but I fail to see how it 
can be legal since it would make email address parsing pretty much 
impossible; possibly URLs as well.  Try cathyatalfa.alfanet.com or 
cathy-at-alfa.alfanet.com, though the atalfa/at-alfa seems pretty 
redundant given the rest of the domain.

--Alex