From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@tanstaafl.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DNS goofups galore...
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:57:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <968mjv$l9t$1@forge.intermeta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95ulrk$aik$1@forge.intermeta.de>, <20010209080454.A17656@beops-jg2.be.uu.net>
jan.gyselinck@be.uu.net (Jan Gyselinck) writes:
>There's not really something wrong with MX's pointing to CNAME's. It's just that some mailservers could (can?) not handle this. So if you want to be able to receive mail from all kinds of mailservers, don't use CNAME's for MX's.
No. It breaks a basic assumption set in stone in RFC821. It has
nothing to do with mailer software.
Regards
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-12 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 13:06 DNS goofups galore Matti Aarnio
2001-02-08 13:35 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-02-08 17:43 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-08 21:46 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-02-08 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-08 23:32 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-08 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-08 23:54 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-09 0:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-09 0:08 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-09 0:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-09 0:31 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-02-09 0:43 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-02-12 12:55 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-12 19:19 ` James Antill
2001-02-13 19:52 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-02-20 23:45 ` James Antill
2001-02-09 7:04 ` Jan Gyselinck
2001-02-12 12:57 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
2001-02-12 20:20 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-02-13 20:39 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[not found] <linux.kernel.20010208193120.C1640@alcove.wittsend.com>
2001-02-09 1:50 ` Aaron Denney
2001-02-09 3:05 ` Michael H. Warfield
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