bind 8.2.3 and sendmail
Larry Sheldon
lsheldon at creighton.edu
Sun Feb 4 23:08:17 UTC 2001
> > When I do it the way I think sendmail will do it, I get a different
> > answer:
[snip]
> That's actually not the way sendmail would do it. Sendmail doesn't
> recursively chase MX records like you did--no mailer does. It would
> have looked up the addresses of mailx.inetaus.com.au and
> mailx2.inetaus.com.au (which exist), not their MX records (which don't).
>
> For details of how the MX algorithm works, see RFC 974.
Yeah, I should have known I was going beyond what I know--my point was
intended to be "self-respecting 'sendmails" don't go after "A" records
for the destination in the address, they go after "MX" records."
I should have left it at that.
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