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Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Apr 3 17:10:04 2003

To: Gerardo Gregory <ggregory@affinitas.net>
Cc: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:58:53 CST."
             <courier.3E8CAE9D.00002141@affinitas.org> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:09:29 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:58:53 CST, Gerardo Gregory said:

> I have always been under the impression (or taught at least) that an MX 
> record was necessary (required) for mail exchange.  I at least believed that 
> this was the correct way.  Recently, we implemented a new mail server at our 

It's the preferred way, but not required.

Then there's those bozo sites (mostly spammers) that ignore MX and go
directly to the A record value.. Blegga...

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