Strange MX Record for altavista.com
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Sep 2 03:14:32 UTC 2004
In article <ch5mlr$1ioj$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Christian Smith <none at i.am.invalid> wrote:
> In article <ch5fte$14et$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Barry Finkel <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> > That is a strange MX record. When that mail system (MX Exchange)
> > tries to send the mail, it opens an SMTP port 25 connection to one of
> > my DNS servers. Is this what is supposed to happen? Thanks.
>
> Well, that MX record is pretty much busted. The mail server -should-
> probably just barf and refuse to deliver the message, but some other
> behavior is not too unexpected.
There's no reason for any special-casing. The mailer should try to look
up an A record for "." (the root domain). Since there is no such
record, it should handle it just like any other MX record that points to
a name without an A record -- log a complaint and bounce the mail.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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