Strange MX Record for altavista.com

[Christian Smith]

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.

Looks like Yahoo pouched the MX record for altavista.com.