On 9 Aug 2000, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > brought them much closer together; I say in my course (and have said in
> > a previous thread, and will say in the book) that one day the difference
> > between them might be abolished. This will simplify things (code and
> > documentation) a lot. I wish I'd thought of it at the start. However, it
> > will need some careful planning. The concept of local_domains is still
> > important for other things (relay checking, routing to "self") and so
> > must somehow be preserved.
>
> You might want to make several groups of domains available somehow, with
> "local" being one of them. Complex setups would probably profit from this
> (local, virtual class 1, virtual class 2, MX, ...).
Been there, already thought of that! (I'm not *doing* anything about
this at present, but I am noting down ideas for the long term. It might
turn out to be very long term.)
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