[COMP] Re: College girl who'll do anythin' to learn


----- 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#
 
-- 
Mark


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