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Re: DNS question, null MX records
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:20:14 +0000
On 2009-12-15, at 19:09, Tony Finch wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Florian Weimer wrote:* Eric J. Esslinger:I found a reference to a null MX proposal, constructed so: example.com IN MX 0 .I think this is quite controversal.My impression from discussions on various IETF lists is that most people think it is a good idea, it is already reasonably widely implemented, but no-one has the time and persistence to push a spec through to publication.
When I attempted to document a similar idea (using an empty label in the MNAME field of an SOA record in order to avoid unwanted DNS UPDATE traffic) the consensus of the room was that the idea was both controversial and bad :-) http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jabley-dnsop-missing-mname-00 Joe
Current thread:
- DNS question, null MX records Eric J Esslinger (Dec 15)
- RE: DNS question, null MX records Mark Scholten (Dec 15)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Florian Weimer (Dec 15)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Tony Finch (Dec 15)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Daniel Senie (Dec 15)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Joe Abley (Dec 16)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Mark Andrews (Dec 16)
- RE: DNS question, null MX records Brian Dickson (Dec 16)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Joe Abley (Dec 16)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Tony Finch (Dec 15)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Joe Abley (Dec 16)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Douglas Otis (Dec 15)
- Re: DNS question, null MX records Mark Andrews (Dec 15)