IP addresses on RHS?

[Cricket Liu]

> 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...

I can't think of any RR types besides the A record that take
an IP address on the right-hand side.  IP addresses are
certainly not allowed in the RDATA of an MX record.

cricket

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