On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 08:00 -0700, SM wrote:
> At 22:24 21-08-2005, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> >SM said:
> > > At 21:50 21-08-2005, Roger Rustad wrote:
> > >>If I have, say, exchange.domain.com, I'm assuming that's cool, as
> > >>any @domain.com mail will go to the mx record, and not the A record.
> > >
> > > Yes, mail to @domain won't go to exchange.domain as it is not listed as a
> > > MX.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > -sm
> >
> >Rubbish.
> 
> Would you mind explaining that comment?

Probably he means, if a server is listening for port 25 on the outside,
someone will connect to it and send it something.  Spammers don't really
care about MX records...

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX, CISSP # 78281
Austin Energy

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