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From: rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com (Rainer Gerhards)
Subject: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new

> their mails deleted, people using localhost.localdomain.com on their
> servers for administrative purposes are scrambling to find 
> out the cause

I don't like what Verisign does. But localhost.localdomain.com is not a
safe domain name. I'd recommend either to use one registered to your
organization or use one of those from
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html. Actually, I would go for ".test".

Rainer