Re: [Exim] How to enable IP MX'es

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andrey Novikov
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to enable IP MX'es
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Andrey Novikov wrote:

> I checked that - there is indead IP MX with valid SMTP MTA
> on it. Why exim can't use it?


Because the definition of an MX record is that the right hand side is a
*domain*, not an IP address.

[Note that an IP address is syntactically valid as a domain name.]

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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