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- From: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: internet with smail3
- Message-ID: <1e6j7aINNp8t@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:33:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.174121.4625@wariat.org> <piggy.721608904@newsroom.utas.edu.au> <Bxq57y.DH3@gator.rn.com>
- Organization: Dept. Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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- NNTP-Posting-Host: daisy.ee.und.ac.za
-
- In article <Bxq57y.DH3@gator.rn.com>,
- larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- > what difference does it make if you are a MX or A record --
- > since they are the same machine?
-
- If you have an A record with no MX record, then mail should be routed
- to your machine in exactly the same way as if you had an A record and
- a single MX record pointing to the machine itself. (See RFC 974, last
- paragraph on page 4.)
-
- For efficiency reasons, it is better to use an explicit MX record. Ask in
- comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains (or in email) if you want more details.
-
- --apb
- Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
- RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za Bang: m2xenix!undeed!barrett
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