On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, W B Hacker wrote:
>
> Understanding that all you want to publish is the mailserver, it is still, just
> IMNSHO, not necessarily a 'good thing' to have no 'A' record for the bare
> <domain>.<tld>. i haven't researched whether it is is / is not a standards
> violation, but lots of things rely on the'A' recpord for the 'raw'
> <domain>.<tld> and some of these MAY be used by SOME mailservers - ident
> callouts, to name one.
>
Ident callouts are made to the connecting IP. What else would they
be made to?
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