Andy Bradford wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:11:43 PDT, "Steve Quezadas" wrote:
>
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234
>
> I could be wrong, but I believe that MX records are supposed to be
> names not IP addresses. This could be part of the problem.
According to the DNS rfc's they are.
But the SMTP RFC's do not mention that a mailer should return an error
in this event, but some do (exim).
Hence its best to have an IP for these pendantic mailers.
Greg
>
> Andy
> p.s. nslookup is deprecated, not to mention broken. If you don't use
> djbdns you should at least use dig.
