Re: Postfix 2.6.6: unexpected behavior in face of nameserver misconfiguration

2018-12-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Dec 10, 2018, at 7:23 PM, ben+postfix-us...@narcissus.net wrote: > > Scenario: a nameserver is misconfigured such that it doesn't set the > "recursion available" (ra) bit on its replies. Postfix's relayhost has an A > record but no MX record, and is specified in main.cf without [] bracke

Postfix 2.6.6: unexpected behavior in face of nameserver misconfiguration

2018-12-10 Thread ben+postfix-users
Scenario: a nameserver is misconfigured such that it doesn't set the "recursion available" (ra) bit on its replies. Postfix's relayhost has an A record but no MX record, and is specified in main.cf without [] brackets around it. What I see is that Postfix 2.6.6 looks up the MX record, receives a