Re: no future for dos access to demon ? (was: Re: PCElm and MIME)

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 00:00

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In article <TDwXhGAkfJv1EwnP@ubik.demon.co.uk>, Anthony Naggs
<amn@ubik.demon.co.uk> writes

>After much consideration Richard Clayton decided to share these wise
>words:
>>In article <o$GZOPA4m1u1EwK8@ubik.demon.co.uk>, Anthony Naggs
>><amn@ubik.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>
>>>+   fix mail transmit to use MX records, and fall back to using the
>>>    smarthost when errors are encountered.
>>
>>I thought it did this
>
>Wasn't there a problem with it only using A or CNAME records?  (I could
>be wrong, as it really as several years since I used DISPC's ka9q.)

when falling back to the smarthost it is resolving it by looking for the
MX record, which did cause a problem and could indeed be usefully fixed

-- 
richard                       writing to inform and not as company policy
 http://www.demon.net/news/features/crypto/  for Demon's views on crypto
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From: Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com>
Subject: Re: no future for dos access to demon ? (was: Re: PCElm and MIME)
Date: 1998/07/27
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