[101577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Jan 12 22:27:59 2008
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:55:56 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Chris Boyd" <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1200193320.6424.28.camel@countzero.gizmopartners.com.gizmopartners.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
A bunch of roadrunner subdomains migrated over to comcast and those are dud.
One operationally better way to go seems to be Mark Delany's mx0dot
proposal, which started out as an internet draft, but seems to have
lost momentum .. the concept is sound though.
http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-delany-nullmx
That'd mean
houston IN MX 0 .
--srs
On Jan 13, 2008 8:32 AM, Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com> wrote:
>
> We're bouncing email to houston.rr.com due to the MX being set to localhost.
>
> clb@countzero:~$ host -t mx houston.rr.com
> houston.rr.com mail is handled by 10 localhost.
>
> Setting the MX to 127.0.0.1 seems like an odd way to handle the switch.
>
> <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/silverman/4842611.html>
>
