At 12:24 PM -0700 9/23/02, Mark Hartman imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >At 10:06 AM -0500 9/23/02, NetHead wrote: >>Mark Hartman wrote: >> >Yet the mail server that responds to "pecandeluxe.com" has an IP address >>>(207.155.252.78) which does not match that list. >> >>When you say, "the mailserver that responds to 'pecandeluxe.com' has an >>IP address...", what query did you use to obtain this? I know if I do a >>DIG on the A-record, I get that IP along with several others. If I had to >>guess, I'd say these are load-balancers for our web-hosting. I suppose I >>can ask them, if I know how you are obtaining that as our "mail server" > >What I did was to use telnet to open pecandeluxe.com:25. I then did a >lookup of the IP address of the name of the server that responded, did a >telnet to it, and got the same server - so I'm reasonably sure that the >IP address that I found was the right one. And it's not in the MX list.
That should be meaningless. A server that doesn't appear in the MX records for a domain should never get mail for that domain. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
