RE: HOSTNAME Field

2003-01-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Chris, I conceptually agree with the proposed change. At the same time, at the risk of duplicating prior comments, I see this allows for the HOSTNAME to reference a logical entity which may be a subset or superset of a physical entity. For example, foo.bar.com may easily refer to a web

RE: HOSTNAME Field

2003-01-22 Thread Marshall Glen
: HOSTNAME Field Chris, I conceptually agree with the proposed change. At the same time, at the risk of duplicating prior comments, I see this allows for the HOSTNAME to reference a logical entity which may be a subset or superset of a physical entity. For example, foo.bar.com may easily

RE: HOSTNAME Field

2003-01-21 Thread Marshall Glen
Chris, I conceptually agree with the proposed change. At the same time, at the risk of duplicating prior comments, I see this allows for the HOSTNAME to reference a logical entity which may be a subset or superset of a physical entity. For example, foo.bar.com may easily refer to a web server

RE: HOSTNAME Field

2003-01-21 Thread Andrew Ross
Hi Chris, I agree with your proposal for the hostname and FQDN. I can't see any major problems with it. Regards Andrew ---vvv--- Proposed change to Section 2.2 ---vvv--- The HOSTNAME field will contain an indication of the originator of the message in one of four formats: only the