Re: [exim] mx selection (possibly off topic)

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
<snip>
> Note that, as a result of pressure long ago from a certain multinational
> company whose name starts with the digit 3, components of domain names
> are permitted start with digits. Thus, an IPv4 address is a
> syntactically valid domain name. A nameserver cannot therefore object to
> being told to load a record such as
>
> xxx MX 1 1.2.3.4
>
> because, syntactically, "1.2.3.4" *could* be a domain name. Sigh.
>

Now that would be confusing.

Steven.

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