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Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Tue Aug 27 18:54:18 2002

In-Reply-To: <20020827021446.GB25208@kevin.supine.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:02:46 +0200
To: Martin <marty@supine.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 12:14 PM +1000 2002/08/27, Martin wrote:

>  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...

	Proper support of SRV records would allow you to put the service 
on any machine or set of machines, and on any port.

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