Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Sep 13 17:38:33 UTC 2005
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:39:21 EDT, Christian Kuhtz said:
>
> william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Which indeed means they have no MX servers listed and that MAY be a
> > problem for some mail servers (though normally mail servers are
> > supposed to send email based on A record then).
>
> Uh, which mainstream mail server out there is ignorant enough not to
> send to A record?
There's no MX record for fema.gov. The *single* A record doesn't answer on
port 25. And there's no mail server I know of that's on enough crack that it
thinks trying the 2 NS entries is acceptable....
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