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Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?


From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews () isc org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:00:25 +1100



Fallback to A should be removed sure sounds like a plan.

great idea.  it will only break mail to 42% of the internet.

        Since there is no fallback to AAAA, in a few years it will
        break very little as most of the internet will have IPv6
        MTA's (and hence MX's) for their mail domains.

        MX fallback to A should have had a sunset time added to it
        when it was originally proposed.  It is, after all, only a
        transition strategy.  We can still add a sunset clause.

        MTA's would lookup their own MX records for the mail domains
        they are configured as final delivery agents for and if not
        found log that there are missing MX records.

        Mark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

randy

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