*BSD News Article 63301


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!wsrcc.com!wetware!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!decuac.dec.com!haven.umd.edu!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS MX records?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 09:03:07 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <4hot4b$kvp@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <8284-264437101@pinboard.com> <DnKKHy.3xJ@news.beach.net>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3

dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) writes:

> Some MTAs use A records instead of or as well as MX records.  Since

They are broken.  Whenever i notice one, i usually complain to the
postmaster.  (In fact, this could lead to serious mail lossage for the
sender, since the connection can be initially opened, but for example,
i don't notice and turn off my SLIP line -- the MTA simply generates
an error for this without trying the MX list).

> you can't fix them, you have to allow for them.  If you never want
> mail delivered to mymachine then don't run the sendmail daemon (-bd).

This is not an option.  I need sendmail locally for mail delivery, and
i don't even think about turning its SMTP listener off just to support
obsolete and broken MTAs.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)