mx record as an ip address

stuart nichols stu at stac.state.tx.us
Wed Oct 4 22:23:27 UTC 2000





On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Duane Cox wrote:

> Some of our customers are reporting that they are having trouble
> emailing people at con-tech-inc.com.  Looking at this domain the
> mx record is set to an ip address, which doesn't appear to be the
> standard way to do things.. I may be wrong there. 


> Could someone please advise if this dns is setup correctly:
> con-tech-inc.com

This is definately incorrect.  An MX record points to a
hostname only.

RFCs 974 and 1035 state this, and I don't think that this
has been superceeded.

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