On 06 Sep 2006, at 17:27 , Joe Wagner wrote:
Are there any circumstances that a mail server should ever send to
the A record of a domain when that domain has MX records pointing
elsewhere? We recently had a network outage so all mail servers
were down. So if Stanford couldn't get to the machines pointed to
by the MX records, can it grab the A record as a legitimate
destination for email (and cache that result). I've turned off the
mail server functionality of the webserver in the short term but I
can't understand why I need to?
As others have respond, no, fallback to A records should only happen
if you 1) don't have MX records or 2) the MX records can't be found.
That said, there are a LOT of problems with your DNS.
<http://dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=hypertouch.com>
The glue issue, specifically, could be the root (sorry, bad pun) of
some of your problems.
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