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DNS recommendations - the paper

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Elmar K. Bins ekb at ivm.net
Wed Nov 25 11:31:42 CET 1998

randy at psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote:

> > The Bat Book advises you to always add MX records
> 
> poor and unnecessary advice.

Opinions may differ here...

> i think we all agree that, if X can not receive mail directly, there should
> be an MX for X pointing to an SMTP server.
> 
> the point is that, if X runs an SMTP server, then there is no need for an MX
> for X.

There is a need if you want to provide failsafe SMTP service. No MX records,
no fallback mailer (like "no hands, no cookies")...

Elmi.

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