Capitalization of domain names

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 9 17:58:23 UTC 1999


what happens if you do an nslookup on this hostname?

Note. Name lookup is NOT supposed to be case sensitive.

Michael

David Kelly wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have had a problem sending mail (via sendmail 8.9.3) to a domain that
> has its primary mail exchanger listing in mixed case.
> 
> i.e. Mail.domain.com
> 
> My mail server attempts to resolve the domain "mail.domain.com" and
> gives a "host unknown" error. Anyone come across this before or know
> what might cause this?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David Kelly
> 
> --
> David Kelly - Network Engineer - Samara Services
> Zimbabwe's Finest Internet Service Provider
> http://www.mindpower.co.zw
> Tel: +263 4 708056  Fax: +263 4 708055


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