Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?

Thu Jul 26 13:53:24 UTC 2012

On Jul 26, 2012, at 1:35 AM, Lou Katz wrote:

> The domain is cookephoto.com

Why does mail.metron.com have MX records?
And they're different.

	$ host cookephoto.com
	cookephoto.com has address 192.160.193.89
	cookephoto.com mail is handled by 10 mail.metron.com.
	cookephoto.com mail is handled by 12 mail2.metron.com.
	cookephoto.com mail is handled by 15 mail.katz.com.

	$ host mail.metron.com
	mail.metron.com has address 192.160.193.14
	mail.metron.com mail is handled by 10 mail.metron.com.
	mail.metron.com mail is handled by 20 mail.katz.com.

	$ host mail.katz.com
	mail.katz.com has address 192.160.193.14

	$ host mail2.metron.com
	mail2.metron.com has address 209.204.189.91

	$ host plaid.metron.com
	plaid.metron.com has address 192.160.193.135

Normally, in my experience, the actual mail server doesn't have MX records as such, but….
Just seems 0dd.

Also, you say …

> At the time of the transaction, nothing special was happening here, ...

Was anything strange happening with any of the DNS records for any of these domains in the past two days?

Aloha,
Michael.
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