At 2:46 PM -0700 9/23/03, David Schwartz wrote:
He asked for the "optimal way" "to see if a given host truly exists" and you told him how to confirm or deny the "existance of a domain". He asked about hosts, you answered about domains.
In fairness I was ambiguous. Although Verisign ought to be describing all of these techniques. But depending on the circumstances I primarily need to check for A records or MX and A records. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.