Hi Sabahattin,
At 09:17 26-03-2013, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Once again I am faced with the question of what to do (as a "Dumb"
SMTP client) when my outgoing interface has a private IP address and
the name is locally administered. I checked RFC 5321 and can't get
a *definitive* answer concerning whether or not a name like
"Computer-Name.local" or "something.lan" is actually fully-qualified
or not; certainly it is not *publicly* resolvable, but it is
resolvable within the environment. My feeling is that it does not
meet the definition of an FQDN. I cannot determine my name with
only a private address, and my name is likely to be meaningless if I
resolve it.
"Sometimes a host is not known to the domain name system". "A
special literal form of the address is allowed as an alternative to a
domain name. For IPv4 addresses, this form uses four small decimal
integers separated by dots and enclosed by brackets".
Regards,
-sm
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