Yes.
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET
Wed Aug 25 03:43:00 UTC 2004
H> In the SOA, they have "localhost." as the primary server,
... which is, of course, perfectly legitimate.
<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-soa-field-semantics.html#DynamicDNS>
H> but there's no A record for localhost,
"localhost." is usually dealt with as a special case in everyone's proxy
DNS servers. See RFC 1912 for how it's usually done by people using
BIND, for example.
H> halurban.com. 86400 SOA localhost. hostmaster.earthlink.net. ( [...] )
~
H> it's not in a fully qualified domain name.
Rubbish. It clearly is.
<URL:http://menandmice.com./online_docs_and_faq/glossary/fqdn.htm>
H> What problems could this cause?
A greater number of calls to Earthlink technical support from people who
don't understand DNS.
H> At times we are not getting all of our emails, it's very sporatic,
H> and it may only be like 5-8 emails in a day, but still would like
H> this to be fixed.
There go the chocolate-covered bananas again.
<URL:http://perl.plover.com./Questions3.html>
Find out what your mail transport problem *really* is, and fix that,
instead.
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