Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:29:24 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A and MX to different ip's for same name Message-ID: <19990722182924.K12369@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <011901bed496$7c93da80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>; from Leif Neland on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 01:02:57AM %2B0200 References: <011901bed496$7c93da80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
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On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 01:02:57AM +0200, a little birdie told me that Leif Neland remarked > Do all mailers look for MX before A records? They do if they're not broken. If they connect to the A record of a host without checking the MX first, they're pretty badly broken. I'm not even sure if, by-the-letter of the RFC, they're even supposed to use the A record at all if there is no MX record. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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