Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:52:58 +1000
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| Well given that if you are looking for a MX for "foo" you
| want to send mail to foo and the fallback if there isn't a
| MX for foo is to look for a address record I would say that
| it is a indentical senario.
No, one is explicitly looking for an MX, the other is looking for
any address. It is only appropriate to look for the A record
corresponding to a name if the MX record is first found not to
exist. Finding an A record that might apply to some other variant
of the name is irrelevant. You'd have to complete the MX search anyway.
On the other hand, "find me any A or AAAA records" is satisfied by
either A, or AAAA or both.
kre
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