IP addresses on RHS?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jan 21 03:17:35 UTC 2000


In article <200001210045.NAA18399 at orion.webmasters.co.nz>,
Richard Stevenson <richard at al.pmail.gen.nz> wrote:
>I have the idea (from DNS & Bind, as well as RFC1035) that IP addresses 
>should only be used on the right-hand side of A RRs (i.e. not on the RHS of 
>any other kind of RR).  Is this in fact the case?  I've just started work 
>at a place that seems to like putting IP addresses on the RHS of MX 
>records, which I am *sure* is just plain wrong...

You are correct, sir.

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