getting the SOA e-mail

Petr Soucek petr at ryston.cz
Wed Jun 7 18:01:05 UTC 2000


> |Lee Howard wrote:
> |A friend of mine pointed out a problem with this:
> |
> |What if the contact email address was ben.smith.cisco.com?
> |It would be translated into ben at smith.cisco.com instead of
> |ben.smith at cisco.com.
> |
> |Solutions to this problem other than a hostname lookup?

The first dot shall be quoted by "\", e.g. ben\.smith at cisco.com.

It is explained in RFC1912, part 2.2.

Best Regards,

Petr Soucek



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