On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: <snip> > Note that, as a result of pressure long ago from a certain multinational > company whose name starts with the digit 3, components of domain names > are permitted start with digits. Thus, an IPv4 address is a > syntactically valid domain name. A nameserver cannot therefore object to > being told to load a record such as > > xxx MX 1 1.2.3.4 > > because, syntactically, "1.2.3.4" *could* be a domain name. Sigh. >
Now that would be confusing. Steven. -- There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
