On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Andrew Brown wrote:

: >The zone administrator (or DNS spoofer) can redirect all root mail, by
: >adding a zone entry "localhost.dom.ain." that points to some other
: >place than 127.0.0.1.  Is this considered a feature?
:
: that doesn't matter.  that will only be looked for if "localhost" by
: itself is not found.

...and even that case can be cared for by using "root@localhost." (note
trailing dot, which tells the resolver that search domains must not be
used).

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>