[62063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Change to .com/.net behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Mon Sep 15 20:38:38 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:37:02 +1200 (NZST)
From: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Haesu wrote:
> > Before I figure out this BIND thing, for now..
> >
> > box02jp5-cr01.twdx.net# set routing-options static route 64.94.110.11/32 di$
>
> Please do no do that. You, or your users, will end up having
> TONS of undeliverable bounces for forged/bogus domains sitting
> in mail spools...
On the other hand, what happens to those people who have one of their MX
records pointing to host at an invalid domain. eg
IN MX 5 mail.example.com.
IN MX 10 mail.iforgottodelete.net
Now the previously non-existent host will resolve and bounce your email
instead of being skipped.
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