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Re: BUG?: MX records of zero are ignored



On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Mike Scher wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 22:10:21 -0600 (CST)
> From: Mike Scher <strange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Qmail Shepherds <djb-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: BUG?: MX records of zero are ignored
> 
> On 2 Feb 1998 stig@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Qmail ignores all MX records that are set to zero.  I don't know if sendmail
> > does the same or not.  But I keep seeing this sort of bounce, so qmail is
> > certainly pickier than other MTAs.
> 
> Hrm.  Very peculiar -- I mail to a bunch of domains that have their mail
> pointed to a set of MX records with the lowest of 0.  I can see from my
> ident server's logs that the mail is definitely being sent to the machine
> listed as MX 0 for the domains.  Something else is going on there.  What
> it is, I don't know; since you can telnet straight in there from your
> machine and get the banner, it's not wrapped against you.  Like another
> poster said, perhaps a broader swath of your qmail logs would help.
> 
> Also, what OS and BIND version are you using?  I don't know if qmail
> relies enough on the BIND implementation and libs for a bug in there to
> cause this kind of behavior, but it's worth a looksee.

Qmail doesn't rely on bind or any local libraries.  It is probably another
problem.  May I ask what the use of a MX record being set to 0 is though?

>  
>       -M
> 
> Michael Brian Scher   (MS683)  | Anthropologist, Attorney, Part-Time Guru
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> 
> 

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