RE: Validating email addresses

Mark,

If DNS is configured on your AS/400 (CFGTCP) any access you do by domain 
name will use the DNS server. PING, for example, will use the DNS server if 
you provide it with a domain name.

Patrick

At 08:00 AM 6/30/2000 -0500, Mark Allen wrote:
>Can I a DNS lookup inside an RPGLE or CL program????
>
>Mark Allen
>IS Manager
>Kelly's Kids
>markallen@kellyskids.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
>[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 6:28 PM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: RE: Validating email addresses
>
>
>At 06:05 PM 06/29/2000, you wrote:
> >         You should be able to do a DNS lookup to validated the e-mail
> > domain.
>
>Make sure, however, that you don't just look for the IP address of the
>domain ... many domains do not have a IP address, just a MX or Mail
>eXchanger record.
>
>MIDRANGE.COM operated that way for years before the web page went online.
>
>david
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