gaguiar@Encore.COM (George Aguiar-Consultant) (02/06/91)
When sendmail asks the name server to resolve a hostname, does it require an authoritative answer? ie. is a non-authoritative answer grounds for an "Unknown host"? Should the name server on a domain server be able to resolve a simple name of a host that is within the domain server's domain? For example: domain = a.com domain server = b.a.com machines within the domain a.com = b, c, d, & f on machine b.a.com I want to send mail to c, d or e The host token to the mailer ( ^W ) is c, d, or e not c.a.com, d.a.com or e.a.com. Should sendmail on b.a.com fail when trying to sendmail to c,d or e because the name server gives an non-authoritative answer?? Should the named be able to give an authoritative replay to simple hostnames within it's domain? ( ie. Maybe it currently isn't configured properly. ) Thanks, --gaguiar