[plug] Smartlist/Exim and Westnet

[John Usher (Maptek)]

In message <20E0F651F8B82F45ABCBACC58A2D995B0332E1 at mexper1>
on Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:50:48PM +0800, John Usher (Maptek) wrote:
>> Interesting! I'm discovering the same...
>> 
>> The rule I learnt always used to be unqualified first, then fully
>> qualified,

>Are you sure you aren't thinking of some non UNIX-like OS, or is this
>something that has changed over the decades (sounds fishy!)? Both
modern
>SysV systems and BSD (for example) expect canonical first, then
aliases.
>I've always found it makes /quite/ a difference. <shrug>


I am thinking IRIX in particular, and even SunOS and Linux systems.

Thinking about it a bit more, I reckon it comes down to the application
and the code it uses to get the expected FQDN...


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