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A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society, the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet.

A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society, the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet.

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Sendmail support of empty group addresses (AKA list syntax)

E-mail group addresses such as undisclosed-recipients:; or a group:,; are valid forms of addressing according to RFC 5322, see for instance the illustrative example in Appendix A.1.3. In Sendmail, this is called…
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Is smart hosting to an A record a violation of RFC-5321 section 1?

I have a sendmail server configured to smarthost to a downstream resource. The configuration is currently: define(`SMART_HOST',`relay:[vip.example.local]')dnl Since it's sending the A record for vip.example.local. I've been told that this is a…
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Is Strict-Transport-Security HTTP header name case-sensitive?

I'm digging into the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security specification, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6797 It specifies the syntax of the header like this: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000 ; includeSubDomains The RFC specifies that…
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Unable to get structured data in logged messages even after adding mmpstrucdata and mmrfc5424addhmac?(RFC5424)

I am trying to log messages with structured data . But it is showing null value for structured data. I am working with rsyslog 8.9.0.Can someone tell me either i need to load some module or modify source to get structure data SD-IDs in logged…
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What does this SAP error mean? recv104 NiIReadrecv nixxi.cp5087

I have an SAP BI Portal system and an SAP BW system. In the Visual Administrator of the BI Portal, section 'JCo RFC Provider' I have created some RFC listeners. In the SAP BW system (in transaction SM59), I have created, tested and activated the…
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How to exclude LAN traffic from IPSEC policy

I am trying to replace a Firewall/VPN appliance (Snapgear SG300) with another (Mikrotik RB951G-2HnD). My current router works, but, for the new mikrotik router, when I add the phase 2 tunnel, I can no longer access the router. I suspect the problem…
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Advertise NO-SOLICITING (RFC3865)

Does it bring anything to specify the Solicitation class keywords in Advertise NO-SOLICITING as per RFC-3865? For instance: dom.spammer:ADLT,dom.listing:ADV
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How is mail delivered to an account different than specified in To header?

Possible Duplicate: How can email possibly be routed to the right place with no to: address? I've seen this quite a few times now. I will receive an email at a domain that I manage (colin@example.com) from an @yahoo.com account but the To header…
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IP-Multicast difference between 224.0.0.1-255 and 239.0.0.0/8 block

Whats the difference between: Local subnetwork Addresses in the range 224.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.255 are individually assigned by IANA and designated for multicasting on the local subnetwork only. For example, the Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2)…
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Is there a common X-Header for RFC 2821 "MAIL FROM"? Should it be DKIM signed?

w.r.t. the difference between RFC2821 MAIL From and RFC2822 FROM I'm considering having my MTA add a header specifying what was sent in the MAIL FROM portion of the envelope. The RFC2821 header is used for receiving email bouncebacks, and is the…
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FreeBSD slow transfers - RFC 1323 scaling issue?

I think I may be having an issue with window scaling (RFC 1323) and am hoping that someone can enlighten me on what's going on. Server: FreeBSD 9, apache22, serving a static 100MB zip file. 192.168.18.30 Client: Mac OS X 10.6, Firefox…
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How to configure bind for a private subdomain?

I am attempting to define a subdomain for a private network (RFC1918) behind a NAT firewall; let's call it priv.example.com. Normally, and from what I can gather on various websites, this could be done by delegating the subdomain from the public…
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Hotmail wants me to modify my SPF record

This is my current SPF record. It works well with gmail and yahoo but hotmail was ignoring. So i used their submit system and now they replied me with the text below. This is my current spf v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all Now this is hotmail message We have…
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Space a valid delimiter for email addresses in email header?

Is it syntactically correct to delimit multiple email recipients in the "To" header of an email with spaces only or do I need to use another delimiter (a semicolon or the like)? Example (MIME data reads as follows): Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:14:16…
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is "GET /" a valid HTTP request?

I noticed that sending GET / (+CRLF) to some webservers (e.g. from a well-known search provider) results in a HTTP/1.0 200 OK message. Other webserver respond with a HTTP/1.0 400 error. To my knowledge even HTTP/1.0 requires the version field. Is…
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