On 12/15/2009 10:17 AM, Eric J Esslinger wrote:
I found a reference to a null MX proposal, constructed so:
example.com IN MX 0 .
Question: Is this a valid dns construct or did the proposal die? I don't want
to cause people problems but at the same time, I don't want any of this crap to
even attempt to deliver on this domain to any of my servers.
Pulling from my often mangled memory:
This was proposed in a draft RFC that went nowhere.
Parsing the Null MX record was implemented in at least one fairly
popular MTA (Postfix?)
The null MX record was published by whoever got (some of?) the Excite
@Home domain(s) after that company flamed out. This results in the
occasional post to various mailing lists by people wondering why they
are queuing mail bound for said domain.
So to the point of your question, it may reduce some SMTP connection
attempts to you, but will not likely eliminate them.
--
Dave
