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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. ;-)