On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote: > John D. Hardin wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > >> From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>> ...ewww! His leg came right off. *pop*. > >>> > >>> Now what do I do with it? > >>> > >> You CAN'T point it at an rfc1918 address (10/8 127/8, 192.168/16, > >> 172.16/21) or you will end up in the bogusmx blacklist. > >> > > > > Okay, that's useful information, but that's not what I was suggesting > > (with my tongue firmly in my cheek): > > > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > > ;maila.microsoft.com. IN A > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > maila.microsoft.com. 3 IN A 131.107.1.7 > > maila.microsoft.com. 3 IN A 131.107.1.6 > > > > Those aren't RFC1918 addresses, or MS would never be able to receive > > mail via them. > > but if YOU point YOUR secondary MX records to mail1.microsoft.com, YOU > WILL LOSE EMAIL, not just spam. > > it will be bounced, with a 5xx error (unknown user, unable to relay), > the sending server won't retry it. > > > The humor value of that was obviously way too low, I'm giving up.
Michael: *It was a joke*. Thanks for the UI, but I would never seriously suggest anyone set any of their MX records to point at *someone else's* mail server, and I would pity anyone who took such a suggestion seriously. 'course, they might learn something (the hard way) from doing that... You need to take some time off from work and recalibrate your humor detector. Guten tag. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows and its users got mentioned at home today, after my wife the psych major brought up Seligman's theory of "learned helplessness." -- Dan Birchall in a.s.r ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 days until The 37th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon
