[46987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Mehl)
Sat Apr 20 12:29:08 2002
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:28:35 -0400
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In the immortal words of Simon Higgs (simon@higgs.com):
>
> SOAs with bogus.domain.names pointing to 127.0.0.1 appear to be causing
> email to bounce (amongst other things).
If there is actually an MTA out there so broken that it tries to
connect to the server mentioned in the SOA MNAME field instead of the
MX or A record for that domain, I'd be inclined to consider this a
benefit, not a drawback.
-n, (Let me guess...cc:SMTP?)
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