chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (01/07/88)
In article <1804@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: >For example, my address is jbuck@epimass.epi.com. If you run a >current Internet mailer, it will try to find the host, fail, and then >obtain an MX record telling it to pass the message to uunet.uu.net.... Actually, to make MX records work `right', it has to use the reverse order: try for an MX answer first, and only if that fails (authoritatively, not temporarily), try for a host. If you look for the host name first, then the MX record, you then cannot make a single machine the mail agent for a group of machines. Also, if a machine is down for a few days, it is nice to be able to redirect Internet mail through a different host in the interim. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris