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Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Tue Sep 13 13:41:06 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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