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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