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Article #4607Re: MX records
From: Chris Torek
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1988 11:43
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1988 11:43
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In article <1804@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: >For example, my address is jbuck@epimass.epi.com. If you run a >current Internet mailer, it will try to find the host, fail, and then >obtain an MX record telling it to pass the message to uunet.uu.net.... Actually, to make MX records work `right', it has to use the reverse order: try for an MX answer first, and only if that fails (authoritatively, not temporarily), try for a host. If you look for the host name first, then the MX record, you then cannot make a single machine the mail agent for a group of machines. Also, if a machine is down for a few days, it is nice to be able to redirect Internet mail through a different host in the interim. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!hao!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: MX records Message-ID: <10078@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 7 Jan 88 11:43:35 GMT References: <5165@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1804@epimass.EPI.COM> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 16