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Subject: Re: lightbulb?  prob'ly not, but....
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2011-01-23 05:07, Robert Bonomi:
>> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:25:01 +0100
>> From: Bernt Hansson<bernt@bah.homeip.net>
>> Subject: Re: lightbulb?  prob'ly not, but....
>>
>> thought.org does not resolve:
>
> 'irrelevant, and immaterial'.<grin>
>
>> %telnet thought.org
>> thought.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
>
> 'thought.org' does _not_ need to resolve.  it is a 'domain-name', not a 'host'.

If you want access to that host it must resolve.

> 'r-bonomi.com' doesn't resolve either.  but hosts _under_ that domain do.

Yes?