Help - Name server timeout

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Aug 17 22:55:27 UTC 2001


In article <9lk3vq$29s at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Will Yardley  <william+dns at hq.newdream.net> wrote:
>there is no A record for that domain.  i believe that sendmail by default
>won't send mail to, or receive mail from, domains that don't have an A record
>that resolves.

You seem to have completely forgotten about MX records.  One of the reasons
MX records were created was to allow mailing to addresses that aren't on
the Internet, and therefore don't have A records.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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