Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

Tue Sep 13 17:57:32 UTC 2005

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:39:21 EDT, Christian Kuhtz said:
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>>william(at)elan.net wrote:
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>>>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).
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>>Uh, which mainstream mail server out there is ignorant enough not to 
>>send to A record?
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>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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That wasn't the question, I'm well aware of the situation.  But thanks 
for playing ;-)