From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 24 13: 2:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F61156EB for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11UZH1-0009FM-00; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:36:43 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11UZH0-0007uy-00; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:36:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:36:41 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bruce Albrecht Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do FreeBSD mailing lists ignore MX preference? Message-ID: <19990924183641.A30415@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199909241014.MAA91015@gratis.grondar.za> <14315.35085.935406.940824@celery.zuhause.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <14315.35085.935406.940824@celery.zuhause.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Albrecht wrote: > Non-authoritative answer: > zuhause.mn.org preference = 150, mail exchanger = minuet.skypoint.net > zuhause.mn.org preference = 100, mail exchanger = 205.215.217.178 "205.215.217.178." almost certainly does not have an address (A) record. Mail exchangers must be host names, not IP addresses. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message