Help - Name server timeout

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Aug 17 23:15:10 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Barry" == Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> writes:

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

In case Barry's comment confuses anyone, those (email) addresses that
were not on the internet were reached via SMTP gateways that did have
A records and lived on the internet.

Does anyone else remember UUCP, BITNET or even X.400?


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