[62707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Sun Sep 21 06:20:39 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:18:32 +0200
From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309211006180.27145-100000@serv1.thn>; from steve@telecomplete.co.uk on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:08:27AM +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:08:27AM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> What if you change the behaviour of the GTLD named daemons to return
> an NXDOMAIN response to any MX queries on non-existent domains, you
> will then take this whole debate on SMTP out of the equation ...
MTAs fall back to the A RR if there are no MX RRs for a given
recipient domain.
Regards,
Daniel