IP Addresses in MX Records?

[Michael Voight]

Read it again :)

Under the section "What the Domain Servers Know"

"Each MX matches a domain name with two pieces of data, a
   preference value (an unsigned 16-bit integer), and the name of a
   host."

It says the "name of a host".

Michael Voight
Cisco TAC

Khalid J Hosein wrote:
> 
> Looking through RFC 974, I can't find anything that says you CAN'T have
> an IP address as the value for an MX record (as opposed to a host name).
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> _Khalid
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