Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?

Sat Jul 28 04:45:39 UTC 2012

On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> In message <25F0B21A-0319-45E3-9DBF-9906CB77AC6C at kapu.net>, Michael J Wise writ
> es:
>> 
>> On Jul 27, 2012, at 6:40 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> MX records don't "chain".
>> 
>> But they do, "Expand".
>> And I can think of a way whereby if an MX record referenced itself, =
>> *AND* included something extra =85 (did you see the something extra?)
>> 
>> That it would be possible (and I'm not saying this is what is happening, =
>> but =85 it could be) =85
>> That an internal process could go resolving MX records, and adds them =
>> all to an internal table, until it figures it's got 'em all=85
>> 
>> 	"Gotta Get 'Em All!"
>> 
>> =85 and maybe, just maybe =85 it exhausts the table space, and gives up, =
>> and tries the A record.
>> 
>> I'm not saying this would be "Standard".
> 
> It would be broken.

I'm not disputing it.
I'm also not saying it is, or it isn't, because I don't know.
What I am saying is, what I do know is, that you probably can't open a Sev A DCR ticket with HotMail, and neither can I.

That, and … it would seem there may be two things broken.
And that fixing the MX "recursion" may re-cloak the apparent bug in HotMail.
Maybe.

Which one can be fixed faster?

Aloha,
Michael.
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