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Chris Meadors
bind at clubneon.com
Wed Feb 7 03:41:46 UTC 2001
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > Some mail servers will fall back to using the A record, but they are by no
> > means required to, and in my opinion doing so is incorrect.
>
> Strangely, your opinion is in direct conflict with the RFCs. They are
> required to.
I do stand corrected. After I made my post, I actually sought out the
RFCs and found I had erred. I probally should have done this in the
oppisite order.
So, let my pose this less than hypothethical situation.
A site operator does define an MX, and it points to a hostname not an IP
as required by an RFC. But the hostname it points to does not resolve to
an IP.
What should the mailer do?
-Chris
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Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the
second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo." The second penguin
said, "I might be..." --David Lynch, Twin Peaks
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