At 14.22 17/08/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Piermaria is right. On the other hand, I could refer all conlang.org mail
>to some other server without its passing through my machine. However, it
Yes. Its a simple MX-record trick.
And speaking of DNS tricks: an empty A record does an interesting thing:
you can address a site without prefixing it with www. or another 3rd-level
name: try http://gilda.it/ (sorry, all in Italian).
>lojban.conlang.org go to ccil.org. That's one reason that even people
(note that lojban.org exists)
>without a webserver might want to claim a conlang.org domain name.
However,
>even this kind of delivery address can cause problems if the target
server
>does not know that it has another legal name. Otherwise, ccil.org is
likely
>to complain that it knows nothing about lojban.conlang.org and bounce the
>mail.
Yes! For mail it is so.
But if someone has a fixed IP but no DNS, Apache is rapidly configured to
answer to requests also with the "new" name.
Ciao!
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