On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Drav Sloan wrote:
> > on your dnslookup router. Of course, that will cut you off from quite a
> > large number of Internet hosts.
>
> Blimey you think so?
Oh yes. There are lots of one-box sites that don't seem to both with MX.
Personally, I wish the rules would change, because MTAs waste a lot of
retries sending to bad domains that have A records but no MX. Often
happens if a PC user mis-configures an MUA, for example.
We insist on MX records within our local domain, and use
mx_domains = *.cam.ac.uk
on our MTAs. That at least gets rid of the problem locally.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
