Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:16:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: Peter Lockhart <peter@key.co.za> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A records on mail domain Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006131109370.30389-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10006131649160.15191-100000@tigger.key.co.za>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Peter Lockhart wrote: : They claim its an RFC requirement. Hmm, I'd like to see a pointer to this. Most SLD's don't have a A record for the domain, just a MX record - that's very common practice at least in my experience. Ask them which RFC. : To my mind , the servers should do an MX lookup and do the A record : lookups on that host. Makes sense to my mind as well. : Is there any such RFC compliance requirement ? Not that I know of, though I by no means have all the RFCs memorized or the time to go reading all the relevent ones at the moment :) : Cheers : Peter Lockhart Good Luck, Matt Heckaman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5RlBadMMtMcA1U5ARAuxdAJ0R+KPuBk5+iUu7Wv5ucnFQ+MHzkwCg64Im awhjR6TSk2+9BN6BTNL/uhc= =+Jw4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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