Re: [Exim] @mx_any and 127.0.0.1

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Author: Bruce Richardson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] @mx_any and 127.0.0.1
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:09:13AM -0700, Fred Viles wrote:
> On 15 Apr 2004 at 16:30, Adam D. Barratt wrote about
>     "Re: [Exim] @mx_any and 127.0.0.1":

>
> | On Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:15 PM, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce@???>
> | wrote:
> |...
> | > Setting an invalid MX record stops this.
> |
> | Indeed. Setting it to
> |
> | MX 0 .
> |
> | is more usual,
>
> It is? Doesn't that amount to abuse of the root servers?


Not really. . will never have an A record. I don't see this bringing
down the root servers.

I would
> think
>
> @ MX 0 name.that.has.no.a.record


Which would still involve a DNS query to the root servers at some point.

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Bruce

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