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Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Sat Jan 12 22:28:34 2008
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A bunch of roadrunner subdomains migrated over to comcast and those are dud.

One operationally better way to go seems to be Mark Delany's mx0dot
proposal, which started out as an internet draft, but seems to have
lost momentum .. the concept is sound though.

http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-delany-nullmx

That'd mean

houston    IN   MX   0  .

--srs

On Jan 13, 2008 8:32 AM, Chris Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We're bouncing email to houston.rr.com due to the MX being set to localhost.
>
> [email protected]:~$ host -t mx houston.rr.com
> houston.rr.com mail is handled by 10 localhost.
>
> Setting the MX to 127.0.0.1 seems like an odd way to handle the switch.
>
> <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/silverman/4842611.html>
>