On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, David Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> > here's an interesting problem. we have a customer who has a sub-domain called,
> > dc_mailhost.customer.com. 1D IN MX 10 ms1.customer.com.
> Why?
>
> Snips from RFC-1035:
ah, but its the left hand side in question, not the exchanger itself, if the
RHS had an underscore, there'd be no doubt...
the problem is that of course noone seems to want to tell the customer they're
wrong :-)
> 3.3.9. MX RDATA format
>
> +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
> | PREFERENCE |
> +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
> / EXCHANGE /
> / /
> +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Paul
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