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Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Sep 13 13:39:51 2005

To: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>,
	"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
	"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:39:21 EDT."
             <4326E499.9080407@corp.earthlink.net> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:38:33 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:39:21 EDT, Christian Kuhtz said:
> 
> william(at)elan.net wrote:
> 
> >
> > Which indeed means they have no MX servers listed and that MAY be a 
> > problem for some mail servers (though normally mail servers are 
> > supposed to send email based on A record then).
> 
> Uh, which mainstream mail server out there is ignorant enough not to 
> send to A record?

There's no MX record for fema.gov.  The *single* A record doesn't answer on
port 25.  And there's no mail server I know of that's on enough crack that it
thinks trying the 2 NS entries is acceptable....


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