Re: [exim] Dumb DNS question about MX records.

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Autore: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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Oggetto: Re: [exim] Dumb DNS question about MX records.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:47:24AM -0500, David Brodbeck wrote:
>>> Is this set of records legal? My ISP claims it will break something if
>>> they implement it:
>>>
>>> mail.interclean.com.   MX  30  mail.interclean.com.
>>> mail.interclean.com.   A       152.160.178.33


Perfectly legal, perfectly valid.

>>> I realize it should be *unnecessary*, but will it work?


It's not entirely unnecessary either. It says officially that this domain
really is a valid mail domain.

[snip]

> I actually told the ISP to go ahead with it and I'd have them back it out
> again if it broke anything. It solved the original problem, but I figured
> I'd better ask in case there was something subtly wrong with this that I
> wasn't spotting.


Your ISP just need their head banging. There is nothing wrong with this, and
they obviously don't understand DNS well enough if they think there is.

Cheers

MBM

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