Re: non-complain mail system at alcatel.com

vgc> I would be interested to know whether Alcatel really believes that DNS 
behaves in
vgc> such a way that one MUST delegate at each "dot" - as far as I know, it is 
NOT
vgc> required to do so.

It is not required.  That's the difference between a 'zone' and a
'sub-domain'.  The latter is a subset of the former.


d/
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