Re: Administrative Overheads Arising from UCE

[Lars Marowsky-Br�e <]

On 1999-02-17T16:29:43,
   Esa Laitinen laitinen@localhost said:

> Really? Don't tell that to Sonera (running inet.fi domain): that is their
> default configuration for customers that hire fixed lines. You have to
> specifically ask for opening port 25 if you want to receive the messages
> directly.
> 
> For example, check out mx records for tjgroup.com, and after that try to
> connect to each host it shows.

Why, do tell, should someone enter non-functional MX records into the DNS?
Thats broken by design.

MX records which are not reachable because they are on the dialup side off a
link, ok. But MX records which are firewalled ? Come on.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brie
	
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