Re: [ot] hosts that ignore mx records

From: Simon White (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 11:17:09 EST


01-Nov-02 at 11:04, Wietse Venema () wrote :
> Simon White:
> > Therefore, a small but significant amount of SMTP services are not doing
> > DNS lookups properly, or have broken DNS lookup libraries, or similar.
>
> Such as?

I don't know, perhaps those people who have been having the problems may
have some information on that. I cannot fathom why any mail would use an
A record to send email to a domain when an MX record exists...

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