mail.edu.com

[dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us]

Quoting Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:29:29AM -0400,
>  dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us <dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us> wrote
>  a message of 16 lines which said:
>
>> Im a little confused about this.  Is this normal behaviour or do I
>> need to make a change in my dns configs?
>
> You made no mistake. The edu.com manager decided to have a MX going to
> 127.0.0.1. This may be a configuration error, or a way to state they
> do not want email or a trick against spammers.
>
> % dig +short A mail.edu.com
> 127.0.0.1
>

So how do I deal with mail going to mail.edu.com?  Im quite certain  
that someone here (since we are a k-12) likely sent an email to  
mail.edu.com.

thanks,

ddh



-- 
Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein