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- From: piggy@noether.cc.utas.edu.au (La Monte Yarroll)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: internet with smail3
- Message-ID: <piggy.721608904@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:55:04 GMT
- References: <BxG7uM.87A@gator.rn.com> <1992Nov9.174121.4625@wariat.org>
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- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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- zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik) writes:
-
- >Once your nameservers will advertise your presence on the net
- >(And I hope you asked them to modify data for your domain from MX
- >record to A record...), other machines will try to reach you
- >directly; until nameservers will advertise it, no one will pay
- >attention to your presence :-).
-
- NO NO NO! You still need the MX record! You need to ADD an A record.
-
- I can't site the RFC off hand, but I'm fairly sure that if you don't
- have an MX record, "compliant" software need not deliver mail to your
- site. The fact that most software will look for an A record if it
- can't find an MX record is an anachronism.
-
- (Feel free to correct me on this.)
- --
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- AKA: piggy@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
- Once upon a time: postmaster@clout.chi.il.us
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