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

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Lähettäjä: Philip Hazel
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Aihe: Re: [exim] mx selection (possibly off topic)
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Tony Finch wrote:

> No it is not. RFC 1123 says "a valid host name can never have the
> dotted-decimal form #.#.#.#, since at least the highest-level component
> label will be alphabetic." Good name servers should object to zones with
> IP-address-like MX or CNAME or PTR target names.


Oh, I hadn't noticed that. Jolly good. Somebody showed some sense then.

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