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Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated


From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:17:34 +0000 (GMT)


On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Daniel Roesen wrote:

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:08:27AM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
What if you change the behaviour of the GTLD named daemons to return
an NXDOMAIN response to any MX queries on non-existent domains, you
will then take this whole debate on SMTP out of the equation ...

MTAs fall back to the A RR if there are no MX RRs for a given
recipient domain.

That was my understanding but on checking with Paul he said that NXDOMAIN means 
dont do further checks so dont look for A...

Steve


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