On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Michael J Wise > writ > es: >> >> On Jul 27, 2012, at 6:40 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >>> MX records don't "chain". >> >> But they do, "Expand". >> And I can think of a way whereby if an MX record referenced itself, = >> *AND* included something extra =85 (did you see the something extra?) >> >> That it would be possible (and I'm not saying this is what is happening, = >> but =85 it could be) =85 >> That an internal process could go resolving MX records, and adds them = >> all to an internal table, until it figures it's got 'em all=85 >> >> "Gotta Get 'Em All!" >> >> =85 and maybe, just maybe =85 it exhausts the table space, and gives up, = >> and tries the A record. >> >> I'm not saying this would be "Standard". > > It would be broken.
I'm not disputing it. I'm also not saying it is, or it isn't, because I don't know. What I am saying is, what I do know is, that you probably can't open a Sev A DCR ticket with HotMail, and neither can I. That, and … it would seem there may be two things broken. And that fixing the MX "recursion" may re-cloak the apparent bug in HotMail. Maybe. Which one can be fixed faster? Aloha, Michael. -- "Please have your Internet License and Usenet Registration handy..."
