One of the many reasons I never put an A record on a domain name. I had a hell of a conversion at an ISP I consult with when they moved from a one server to many server setup. Previously they'd advertised domain.tld for *everything*; MX, www, POP, SMTP, you name it. Everything was domain.tld. That made breaking off the mail system difficult.
IIRC, I recall an arguement that strongly says you aren't supposed to put an A on a domain. I forget what the main reasons were though. Justin On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > It's a normal behavior. If you do not have a specific MX record for the > domain, the mail servers will look to the A record for the domain. So, if > www.domain.com has the same A record as domain.com, or if domain.com is > CNAME'd to www.domain.com, than that system will receive the mail for > domain.com. > > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Terry Poperszky wrote: > > > If there is a better list for this, please feel free to direct me to it. > > > > I maintain about 20 different domain registrations, only a couple of > > which receive emails (At least legitimate ones). One domain that had > > been receiving emails and was now defunct, was still receiving hundreds > > of SPAM mails per day. In effort to cut them down I removed the MX > > records from that domains zone, last night I got a call from the ISP > > that hosts the web site and he said that he was now getting the brunt of > > that traffic. Now, I am just a tad confused, he does not, nor has ever > > hosted the email for this domain, why in the world would he be getting > > them? > > > > Terry > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
