On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth Dave C. on Fri, Oct 29, 1999:
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > > And, BTW, write a function in C that will find out whether or not
> > > you have a permanent Net connection and proper hostname, eh?
> >
> > Heck I can write a bash script that can do that..
>
> How? (By proper hostname, I meant the one that can be traced
> from the root DNS servers). And don't forget that trying to
> nslookup exim.org won't work -- if the line is down, I want the
If your line is down, then by definition you DONT have a permanent
connection ;)
> function / script to return the "have permanent connection"
> value. If there usually is Net connection. And checking
> hostnames won't work either -- you never know when some weird TLD
> like ".nom" is defined.
Ah.. thats when you bypass local DNS, and query a.root-servers.net
yourself.
In any case, if your MUA doesnt want to generate a message ID, the
first MTA to handle the message will generate one.
>
> Vadik.
>
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