[COMP] Re: College girl who'll do anythin' to learn
- From: "Mark Symonds" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:44:20 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Madden" <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: [COMP] Re: College girl who'll do anythin' to learn
>
> I also haven't received any bounces for this subscriber -- perhaps it's
> the MX for this domain that matters, not the hostname? I get stuff like
> this all the time, where trying to resolve the host fails miserably, but I
> can still get mail through to the user.
>
Exactly right. MX records only. Is that RFC compliant,
or should every host have an A record so that admins can
quickly find an IP? CNAMES galore over there, oh well.
At least they appear to have PTR records setup.
symonds:/var/www# nslookup -query=any stu.und.ac.za
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
stu.und.ac.za preference = 10, mail exchanger = Mail.und.ac.za
stu.und.ac.za preference = 20, mail exchanger = Mail.unp.ac.za
und.ac.za nameserver = Shrike.und.ac.za
und.ac.za nameserver = Raven.und.ac.za
und.ac.za nameserver = ucthpx.uct.ac.za
und.ac.za nameserver = hiPPo.ru.ac.za
und.ac.za nameserver = Rain.psg.com
Shrike.und.ac.za internet address = 146.230.128.15
Raven.und.ac.za internet address = 146.230.128.50
ucthpx.uct.ac.za internet address = 137.158.128.1
hiPPo.ru.ac.za internet address = 146.231.128.1
Rain.psg.com internet address = 147.28.0.34
symonds:/var/www#
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Mark
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