On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:18:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:31:02 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess this message is some sort of demented halucination. I have > > never had an MX record...yet I still get the list. I also haven't had > > He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he > said that "somewhere out there on the internet there is a nameserver for > your domain name with MX records that point at your mail server." > > Apparently for you that somewhere is dyndns. If *no one* had it, you > wouldn't receive mail.
Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a preference of 0, pointing to that host." Thus Paul's setup not only works, it _should_ work as it is compliant. Any MTA which cannot deliver mail to Paul's system due to the lack of an MX record is broken. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. -- Plato -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
