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[Chris Meadors]

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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