From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 8 4:57:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from colossus.invictanet.co.uk (colossus.invictanet.co.uk [62.232.18.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9821237B4CF for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 04:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from harryhome (modem282.netkonect.net [194.164.14.28]) by colossus.invictanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA26009 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:57:16 GMT From: "InvictaNet Customer Support" To: "Freebsd-ISP" Subject: RE: non-existant MX Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:57:12 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The question that strikes me is "Why on earth would you not want to receive mail for a domain under your control" You could be missing out on "I think your domain name is cool, will you sell it for £1 million?" Martyn ----------------------------------------------------- InvictaNet - The Internet in Plain English, Guaranteed http://www.invictanet.co.uk mailto:info@invictanet.co.uk phone: 0870 7402252 fax: +44 (0)1233 334001 ------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathan M. Slivko Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:48 PM To: leifn@neland.dk; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-existant MX I *think* that if you don't set up an MX line, one will not be used. So, if you don't put anything, I think you should be fine. -- Jonathan M. Slivko >From: Leif Neland >To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org >Subject: non-existant MX >Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:00:25 +0100 (CET) > >How can I in the dns specify there is no mailserver for a domain? > >I have domains where the domain itself has an ip-adress, for having >www.this.dom = this.dom, but where there are no mailserver. > >I see some mailers trying to send the mail to the ip-adress of the >webserver. > >Would some of these work? > >no.mailserver.for.this.domain. >0.0.0.0? >255.255.255.255? >127.0.0.1? > >Or are there any magic values? > >Leif > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message