[120293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS question, null MX records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Dec 15 14:10:45 2009
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:09:29 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
In-Reply-To: <827hsonth4.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Eric J. Esslinger:
>
> > I found a reference to a null MX proposal, constructed so:
> > example.com IN MX 0 .
>
> I think this is quite controversal.
My impression from discussions on various IETF lists is that most people
think it is a good idea, it is already reasonably widely implemented, but
no-one has the time and persistence to push a spec through to publication.
Tony.
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