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To: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
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Subject: Re: handling literals 
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 14:21:23 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>


Keith Moore writes:
> Mail to domain-literals should not depend on DNS.

I completely agree, but remember that a v4 only host can't send to a
v6 host in the general case, so its either set up an MX or have it
bounce. I'd prefer the MX.

> I most often use domain-literals to send mail when the recipient's DNS
> server is broken.

Oh, absolutely, and v6 implementations should take the .ip6.int
domain and treat it specially.

Perry