Getting silly was Re: using an ip in an MX record

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Mon Aug 13 07:59:06 UTC 2001


Don Stokes wrote:
> 
> Um:
> 
> $ORIGIN foo.example.
> @       IN      MX      1 192.168.1.2
> 
> is the same as:
> 
> @       IN      MX      1 192.168.1.2.foo.example.

Good point, although I noted in the Postfix list someone had
failed to [] their relay host, and couldn't figure why they were
getting name service error on an "IP address"....

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