Our first inbound email via IPv6 (was spam!)

Livingood, Jason Jason_Livingood at cable.comcast.com
Tue Jun 5 14:47:41 UTC 2012


On 6/5/12 10:33 AM, "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:


>Though it can work, it used to be a really bad idea as there where a
>couple of SMTP systems (Communigate Pro being one of them I recall)
>which just failed when not seeing an "A" on an MX, this as they did not
>understand IPv6...
>
>There is bound to be other systems that are broken like that that will
>not failover to the secondary MX, as such, you might want to add an IPv4
>address there too just in case.

Thanks for the advice. You are seeing inbound records in the very first
stage. More AAAA RRs are coming. The next 24-48 hours around World IPv6
Launch will be interesting.

Jason





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