[51225] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Wed Aug 21 21:02:05 2002
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:02:23 -0400
In-Reply-To: <001d01c2496b$e8d1ff40$030010ac@void>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Robert Blayzor
> Sent: August 21, 2002 7:39 PM
> To: 'Brad Knowles'
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
>
>
> Correct, but MX's (mail servers) have static assignments,
> unless you change DNS every time. Running MX's on dynamic
> IP's to receive mail would be quite silly.
Then perhaps you'd like to tell me how we have tens of thousands of
users quite happily doing it?
True, I wouldn't run Hotmail/AOL/EarthLink/etc's MXes off dynamic IPs,
but for a home/small biz mail server...
Oh, and one last thing, when you specify an MX (statically, as you say),
you don't put in the IP but rather a name created with A record, so what
prevents that A record from being a low-TTL dynamic DNS A record?
Vivien
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Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
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