From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 7 15: 0:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40F937B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:00:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 66A4C6A901 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 00:00:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id AAE46D9049E; Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:06:12 +0100 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001107235803.030b4eb0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:00:06 +0100 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: non-existant MX In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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? no, MTA's will look for a domain's MX(s), then the domain's A. You can't change their behaviour. "You build it, and they will mail to it" Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 & 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message