On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Brian, > > OK, this may explain for Sun the difference in platform behavior. I'll > leave JavaMail on this reply to clarify that it is NOT dnsjava, but a > mis-configured DNS zone file to blame. After this, though, let's take > JAVAMAIL-INTEREST off the recipient list, since this is rapidly drifting OT > for them. Just reply to the James developers list. > > Your reply clarifies the situation nicely. The target domain is > game.mtonline.org. If I do an nslookup for the MX records on Windows vs > linux, I get different results. dig and dnsjava dig show the correct (bad) > results on both platforms. Bottom line is everything except for Windows > nslookup shows: > > game.mtonline.org. IN MX 1 193.95.196.170. > > Windows hides the '.' in nslookup Attempting to connect to that result > gives the UHE on linux, but not on Windows. I concur with you that it is a > broken DNS zone file, both because of the trailing '.', and because an IP > address in an MX record violates RFC 1035, 3.3.9. But it is the '.' that > causes the exception. > > Thanks Brian. :-) Let us know what you think, after you look at it (again, > let's take JavaMail Interest off the recipient list).
Agreed. That's an invalid MX record, so there's no reason to believe that it will work. Depending on the mail server / dns resolver library, it might, but it's a broken DNS issue. Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
