From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 08:37:51 CST

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Chip Mefford:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Chip Mefford:
> >
> > IF and ONLY IF the lookup completes AND says no MX record exists.
> >
> > Can't people read RFCs anymore?
>
> People can read RFCs until they grow old
> and die from it. There are a lot of RFCs
> now, and some of the less clueful amongst
> us (such as I) have a hard time figuring out
> what has been depreciated, or superceeded
> by a RFC we haven't read yet, or just read
> a draft of a couple of years ago, and is
> now adopted.
>
> Hence asking for a clue here. And all of
> your help is appreciated.

FYI, The details of MX versus A lookup were defined 20 years ago.
If you want to operate a mail server this is among the basic stuff
that you need to know, just like you need to understand the basics
of netmasks if you want to operate an IP network.

I could have posted a pointer to the RFC itself, but then I get
accused of showing pictures of food to hungry people.

        Wietse

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