At 2003-04-02T14:18:50Z, ronin2@bellatlantic.net writes:
> He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he said
> that "somewhere out there on the internet there is a nameserver for your
> domain name with MX records that point at your mail server."
Not necessarily true:
kirk@pooh:~$ host -t mx ursine.dyndns.org
kirk@pooh:~$
> Apparently for you that somewhere is dyndns. If *no one* had it, you
> wouldn't receive mail.
Not true. The sending server will attempt to connect directly to the
specified hostname if no MX record exists for the domain.
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Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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