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[G. E. Terry]

As far as I am aware, you need an mx record to route mail to.

At 04:42 PM 2/6/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Can you recieve email without having an MX record? I seem to recall it using
>the A record instead.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: G. E. Terry [mailto:gterry at twave.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:31 PM
>To: Bodley at tflogic.com; bind-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: (no subject)
>
>
>
>There are no MX records associated with the domain.
>
>
>
>At 04:14 PM 2/6/2001 -0500, Charles Bodley wrote:
> >I cannot seem to send emails to a person on this server. I dug into the MX
> >records and this was the response.
> >
> >dig @NS1.BEAVUH.ORG apexcomm.net -t MX
> >
> >
> >[bodley at blizzard bodley]$ dig @NS1.BEAVUH.ORG apexcomm.net -t MX
> >
> >; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @NS1.BEAVUH.ORG apexcomm.net -t
> >; (1 server found)
> >;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> >;; got answer:
> >;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
> >;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >;; QUERY SECTION:
> >;;      apexcomm.net, type = MX, class = IN
> >
> >;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> >apexcomm.net.           1D IN SOA       ns1.beavuh.org. root.beavuh.org. (
> >                                         2000112400      ; serial
> >                                         3H              ; refresh
> >                                         1H              ; retry
> >                                         5w6d16h         ; expiry
> >                                         1D )            ; minimum
> >
> >
> >;; Total query time: 90 msec
> >;; FROM: blizzard.cyberset.com to SERVER: NS1.BEAVUH.ORG  216.151.169.148
> >;; WHEN: Tue Feb  6 15:58:32 2001
> >;; MSG SIZE  sent: 30  rcvd: 85
> >
> >Why is it spitting up soa information?
> >
> >Charles A. Bodley
> >Technician
> >TF Logic
> >
> >"It's amazing what you can do with a kind word,
> >provided you've also got a big stick."
> >         - Johnny and the Dead