Re: Bogus nic.fr behavior

[Mats Dufberg]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Robert Elz wrote:

> Yes, could do, but the problems I mostly see wouldn't be caught by
> the simple tests often, so I'm not sure there is a lot of benefit to
> them (I don't think I have ever seen anyone here attempting to use
> "localhost" in there - though I have seen "" (.) which seems to be
> an idea from somewhere on how to avoid spam, and of course the
> consequences of $ORIGIN being appended to a FQDN).

localhost is not uncommon. The most common error is probably
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which cannot be caught by anything else but a complete
test.


Mats

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