On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:41:42AM -0600, Michael Harney wrote: > Wrong, the very nature of DNS means that they do effect your email... > they forward it to the proper server.
No, you are still incorrect. DNS resolves domain names to IP numbers, nothing more. No TCP/IP email packets bound for my machine need ever go through my DNS server machine. Routers handle packet direction, and they use IP numbers, hence the need for DNS. If someone sends an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then the mailer program will do a DNS lookup on erikreuter.net to find the IP number, possibly forwarding the DNS resolution request to the authoritative DNS for the domain, but NO email packets need go through the DNS. Once the DNS responds to the lookup request with the IP number for erikreuter.net, then the mailer sends the TCP/IP email packets to that IP address and various routers direct the packets to their destination. > Without DNS records for your domain you would not be able to recieve > any mail. Not quite. I would not be able to receive any mail addressed to "erikreuter.net", but if the mailer sent to my IP address directly, then it would work even if I had no DNS. > No, that is not a fantasy/delusion. You have exagerated something I > said into something it is not. That was exactly the point. Read the sentence again, literally. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/
