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Re: How exactly am I expected to use the FQDN?

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Thomas Hochstein

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May 4, 2023, 12:00:05 AM5/4/23
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Sanjay A. Nair schrieb:

> Eternal September has a service providing FQDNs to registered
> users, but how exactly do I utilise it for my purposes?

You use it to create the right hand (domain) part of your message id.

> Namely using it as the domain for my file server?

You don't.

Sanjay A. Nair

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May 4, 2023, 4:26:30 PM5/4/23
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Understood, thank you.


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May 12, 2023, 1:30:10 PM5/12/23
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On Fri, 12 May 2023 14:40:18 +0530 (GMT+05:30), Sanjay A. Nair wrote:
> Well, according to www.eternal-september.org, this is a registered
> FQDN. Except, it seems to not exist.

Let me look,
]$ nslookup www.eternal-september.org
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.eternal-september.org canonical name = mailhub.eternal-september.org.
Name: mailhub.eternal-september.org
Address: 81.169.215.164
Name: mailhub.eternal-september.org
Address: 2a01:238:4300:2500:2fd8:fc5:ba0d:e44f

Looking like someone knows about it. Let;s try it in a browser


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Looking at the above snippet seems like a valid lookup to me.

Thomas Hochstein

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May 13, 2023, 4:00:09 PM5/13/23
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Sanjay A. Nair schrieb:

> Well, according to www.eternal-september.org, this is a registered
> FQDN. Except, it seems to not exist.

A fully qualified domain name is a name, and it obviously does exist;
you're using it in your Message-ID.

Thomas Hochstein

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May 25, 2023, 12:00:10 PM5/25/23
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Sanjay A. Nair wrote:

> However it leads not nothing,

Of course not. It's a name, nothing more, nothing less.
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