I would be interested to know whether Alcatel really believes that DNS behaves
in such a way that one MUST delegate at each "dot" - as far as I know, it is
NOT required to do so.
vint
At 04:01 PM 6/22/2003 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
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Alcatel.com does not have a functional email system. It believes that
all domains must have full NS-record delegations. I.e. that my domain
"sandelman.ottawa.on.ca" must be a delegation from "ottawa.on.ca",
rather than from "ca". (The .CA namespace has a single ccTLD)
I have contacted Alcatel repeatedly by email and by phone in the
past months, and I have gotten no response to this. A major problem is that
I think that only one of their MX's has this behaviour.
So, I'm resorting to the only other way I have - embarassment.
Specifically, it says:
The original message was received at Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:27:27 -0400 (EDT)
from IDENT:root(_at_)lox(_dot_)sandelman(_dot_)ottawa(_dot_)on(_dot_)ca
[192.139.46.2]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<Donna(_dot_)Hogan(_at_)alcatel(_dot_)com>
(reason: 550 sender ignored: ottawa.on.ca does not have a name server
record)
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... while talking to primary.alcatel.com.:
MAIL From:<mcr(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ottawa(_dot_)on(_dot_)ca>
<<< 550 sender ignored: ottawa.on.ca does not have a name server record
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
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