Author: Ruth Ivimey-Cook Date: To: Giuliano Gavazzi CC: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Full marks to Exim :-)
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>At 6:08 +0530 2003/01/30, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>How would your mail reach them if they had their only MX pointing to
>>127.0.0.1?
>>
>
>the contact in the SOA or in the whois record might point to an
>address in a different domain. I would have not obscured the address
>though, as pointing an MX to 127.0.0.1 or other illegal address asks
>for an even worse retribution.
Yes indeed it was... this was the .com version, but the contact was for a
.co.uk address which, when 'dig'ged gave sensible results.
They've fixed it now ( but no email to me in thanks :-( )
Ruth
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Ruth Ivimey-Cook
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