On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:31, Kelson wrote: > I remember a year or two ago there was a fad in which admins would set > up a tertiary or higher MX pointing to 127.0.0.1 in order to hassle spam > software that used the highest MX instead of the lowest. > > I don't know how many of these are still around, and I never thought it > was a good idea -- and you can definitely argue that it's a malicious > config!
The reason you publish multiple MX addresses in the first place is that you know some won't always be reachable. What would you like to happen when all but 127.0.0.1 is unreachable? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
