Re: FWD: Popularity-contest submission doesn't go through to apenwarr-survey@klecker.debain.org
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:05:20PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > $ host -v -t MX -A debian.org
> > Query about debian.org for record types MX
> > Found 1 address for debian.org
> > Checking debian.org address 198.186.203.20
> > !!! debian.org address 198.186.203.20 maps to klecker.debian.org
> [...]
> > So, mail to debian.org is the same as mail to klecker.debian.org ....
>
> No! This is absolutely wrong. The output just shows that the MX
> (Mail-Exchange) for the domain debian.org is klecker.debian.org.
ITYM s/domain/host/.
> Never assume from an MX output something about the mail-address and
> local-parts in a domain and/or it's subdomains.
Actually, everything would be fine had he not used -A.
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