How can I tell a host name from a subdomain
Barry Margolin
barry.margolin at level3.com
Wed Aug 6 21:19:31 UTC 2003
In article <bgrr15$2njp$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Sam Kong <ssk at chol.net> wrote:
>Then do you think that a host name is also a subdomain?
>Subdomain can have many hosts in its domain.
>But host is just a computer and can't have lower level nodes.
That's not true. yahoo.com is a hostname, but that doesn't prohibit
www.yahoo.com.
>And also
>user at subdomain.domain.com is possible but
>user at hostname.domain.com is not.
>
>Or am I wrong? I am not sure.
You're wrong. user at hostname.domain.com and user at subdomain.domain.com are
processed exactly the same way:
1. First look for MX records associated with the name after the @; if any
are found, try to send the mail to those servers in order of the
preference levels.
2. Otherwise, look up the A records for the name, and try to send the mail to
those addresses.
The existence of other names that have the name as a suffix are irrelevant.
--
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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