[84446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Tue Sep 13 13:58:22 2005
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:57:32 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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: <200509131738.j8DHcY0r017215@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:39:21 EDT, Christian Kuhtz said:
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>>william(at)elan.net wrote:
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>>>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).
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>>>
>>Uh, which mainstream mail server out there is ignorant enough not to
>>send to A record?
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>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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That wasn't the question, I'm well aware of the situation. But thanks
for playing ;-)
