is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

Nathan J. Mehl memory-nanog at blank.org
Sat Apr 20 16:28:35 UTC 2002


In the immortal words of Simon Higgs (simon at higgs.com):
> 
> SOAs with bogus.domain.names pointing to 127.0.0.1 appear to be causing 
> email to bounce (amongst other things). 

If there is actually an MTA out there so broken that it tries to
connect to the server mentioned in the SOA MNAME field instead of the
MX or A record for that domain, I'd be inclined to consider this a
benefit, not a drawback.

-n, (Let me guess...cc:SMTP?)

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