a new sendmail question

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Dec 17 20:28:35 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:25 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> I would claim that you do have a domain. The domain of the external
>> interface of your router. 
> 
> Hmm, claiming your ISP's domain as if it were your own can be a problem.

Not exactly, dsl-58-6-192-21.wa.westnet.com.au is unambiguously one 
computer (more precisely one DSL user), and is subject to change from 
one user to another at the whim of westnet, so its use for anything not 
transient isn't very practical.



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