Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:10:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@fingerhut.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do FreeBSD mailing lists ignore MX preference? Message-ID: <14315.63209.521223.907830@fingerhut.com> In-Reply-To: <19990924183641.A30415@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199909241014.MAA91015@gratis.grondar.za> <14315.35085.935406.940824@celery.zuhause.org> <19990924183641.A30415@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst writes: > 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. Unfortunately, I don't have control over the MX record. When I asked them to change it to my new static IP I gave them a valid PTR address (FQDN) and the new static IP, and they used the static IP instead of the FQDN. I've asked them to correct it, now that I know that it's wrong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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