Slightly OT - MX RR Santity Check requested...
Wael Shahin
wael.shahin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 10:44:41 UTC 2007
> Assume that we block the pref 5 MX host (which we do). Shouldn't sending
> hosts use the pref 10 MX RR?
Maybe am wrong, but some mail servers stop trying when they actually get an
answer. meaning if the external mail server was able to connect to port 25
and got an SMTP permanent errors like your host is blacklisted. the error is
returned to the client without trying other mail servers in the MX zone
> ... Kev
More information about the bind-users
mailing list