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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!postscript.cs.psu.edu!fenner
  2. From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
  4. Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
  5. Message-ID: <BzMKDo.Lq@cs.psu.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Dec 92 19:49:00 GMT
  7. References: <xbe1Hq_5cb@atlantis.psu.edu> <e80RVB2w165w@1776.COM> <xTkMrA9DBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
  8. Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet)
  9. Organization: Penn State Computer Science
  10. Lines: 13
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: postscript.cs.psu.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <xTkMrA9DBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> djk@boombox.apana.org.au writes:
  14. |In <e80RVB2w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
  15. |>barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
  16. |>> Unfortunately, in DNS, having a wildcard MX ... will mean that ALL mail to 
  17. |>> *.UUCP will go to the one site.
  18. |
  19. |Nobody said it has to be *one* site.  But let's not argue about that.
  20.  
  21. The DNS design allows for several same-preference MX'ers to be listed, however,
  22. most implementations will use them in listed order.  This means, that in
  23. practice, it will be *one* site.
  24.  
  25.   Bill
  26.