I would be interested to know whether Alcatel really believes that DNS behaves in such a way that one MUST delegate at each "dot" - as far as I know, it is NOT required to do so. vint At 04:01 PM 6/22/2003 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >Alcatel.com does not have a functional email system. It believes that >all domains must have full NS-record delegations. I.e. that my domain >"sandelman.ottawa.on.ca" must be a delegation from "ottawa.on.ca", >rather than from "ca". (The .CA namespace has a single ccTLD) > >I have contacted Alcatel repeatedly by email and by phone in the >past months, and I have gotten no response to this. A major problem is that >I think that only one of their MX's has this behaviour. > >So, I'm resorting to the only other way I have - embarassment. > >Specifically, it says: > >The original message was received at Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:27:27 -0400 (EDT) >from IDENT:root@lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca [192.139.46.2] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><Donna.Hogan@alcatel.com> > (reason: 550 sender ignored: ottawa.on.ca does not have a name server record) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >... while talking to primary.alcatel.com.: >>>> MAIL From:<mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> ><<< 550 sender ignored: ottawa.on.ca does not have a name server record >554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Finger me for keys > >iQCVAwUBPvYLIYqHRg3pndX9AQH+1QP/fe0rInX+kaX3QQFFlnF6qNEzDyVGsTcf >NptzvtrzSUqQC1TMXYMII25nkvk4G2p73qWDxmoTxGhax/CYhJyZwPfPpLO/AqV9 >Nl8wmGE6sLMMCorgsX+O52Q5Rdni/LK/yMz0RYf/wkZnhIBTpqINww6TtANnsAZ5 >RkOSQjDwrLc= >=7AxR >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology MCI 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax vinton.g.cerf@mci.com www.mci.com/cerfsup