On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:10:19 +0200
"Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phillip Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Cars have two registration plates, one on the front, and one on the
> > back. The police stop you if either is missing.
>
> So these setups would be illegal:
>
> i) MX 10 mail.example.com.
> ...because there's no license plate on the back?
>
> ii) MX 10 mail.example.com.
> MX 20 mail2.example.com.
> MX 30 mail3.example.com.
> ...because there's an extra license plate on the roof?
>
> iii) MX 10 mail.example.com.
> MX 20 nil.example.com. ; points to unreachable IP address
> ...because one of the servers isn't reachable?
>
> ...and the Courier Police would have to stop me?
>
> Please stop these b0rken analogies, this is ridiculous.
>
> > The point is the standard is the standard
>
> Yeah, that's what some people here keep telling us. But what is the
> actual harm in handling broken MX records in a tolerant way? Nobody has
> yet answered that question.
The harm is bloating the code for no good reason. Often people are
forced to bad software so you may decide to cope with that,
but what else then stupidity is responsible for bad MX entries ?
Bye
Racke
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