Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I see roadrunner listens. frodo:~ dig +short houston.rr.com mx 0 . frodo:~ dig +short houston.rr.com txt v=spf1 -all --srs On Jan 13, 2008 8:55 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bunch of roadrunner subdomains migrated over to comcast and those are dud. One operationally

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: Since there is no [MX] fallback to Wrong. http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg49841.html Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ FISHER GERMAN BIGHT: SOUTHERLY BECOMING CYCLONIC THEN WESTERLY 7 TO SEVERE

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Randy Bush wrote: Fallback to A should be removed sure sounds like a plan. great idea. it will only break mail to 42% of the internet. Randy's right, though it's email *from* 42% of the Internet that's the biggest problem. [rant about email from shitty php web forms

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 9:55 PM, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: One operationally better way to go seems to be Mark Delany's mx0dot proposal, which started out as an internet draft, but

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Jan 14, 2008 5:08 PM, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the . convention then it will look up the root's and A records, which is stupid but should cause the message to bounce as desired. However if it does implement the convention (just like the usage rules for a SRV record target

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Jan 14, 2008 5:08 PM, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the . convention then it will look up the root's and A records, which is stupid but should cause the message to bounce as desired. However if it does implement the convention (just like

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Randy Bush
Fallback to A should be removed sure sounds like a plan. great idea. it will only break mail to 42% of the internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment randy

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Jan 15, 2008 8:53 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are lots of places in the DNS where . makes sense as a null indicator. RP uses it today, as does SRV. MX should use it and fallback to A should be removed. It Fallback to A should be removed sure

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Mark Andrews
Fallback to A should be removed sure sounds like a plan. great idea. it will only break mail to 42% of the internet. Since there is no fallback to , in a few years it will break very little as most of the internet will have IPv6 MTA's (and hence MX's) for their

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Finch
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: One operationally better way to go seems to be Mark Delany's mx0dot proposal, which started out as an internet draft, but seems to have lost momentum .. the concept is sound though. Exim implements this convention. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Jan 13, 2008 9:55 PM, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: One operationally better way to go seems to be Mark Delany's mx0dot proposal, which started out as an internet draft, but seems to have lost momentum .. the concept is sound

houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-12 Thread Chris Boyd
We're bouncing email to houston.rr.com due to the MX being set to localhost. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host -t mx houston.rr.com houston.rr.com mail is handled by 10 localhost. Setting the MX to 127.0.0.1 seems like an odd way to handle the switch.

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: We're bouncing email to houston.rr.com due to the MX being set to localhost. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host -t mx houston.rr.com houston.rr.com mail is handled by 10 localhost. Setting the MX to 127.0.0.1 seems like an odd way to handle the

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A bunch of roadrunner subdomains migrated over to comcast and those are dud. One operationally better way to go seems to be Mark Delany's mx0dot proposal, which started out as an internet draft, but seems to have lost momentum .. the concept is sound though.