[51400] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Mon Aug 26 22:41:48 2002
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:41:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20020827021446.GB25208@kevin.supine.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Martin
> Sent: August 26, 2002 10:15 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group
> Proposal at smtpng.org)
>
> but surely an MTA derives it's usefulness by running on port
> 25. i don't remember reading about where in the DNS MX RR you
> could specify what port the MTA would be listening on...
Well, it must specify it somewhere, since at least a couple of times a
week we have our users ask how to stick a port number in an MX record.
:)
Where they got this idea is beyond me (unfortunately), but it's quite a
common question...
Vivien
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Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
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