[Wayyy OT][Fwd: Connecting with Customers]

[Richard Lotz]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:23:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Aaron Racine <aaron at darklands.org> wrote:
>
> #
> # $ dig ceo.microsoft.com mx | grep MX
> # ;;      ceo.microsoft.com, type = MX, class = IN
> # ceo.microsoft.com.      6910    MX      10
> # newsletters.microsoft.com.
>
> Interesting.  They never configured "ceo.microsoft.com" to have an
> address...

It doesn't need one.  If there isn't going to be a host answering to
ceo.microsoft.com then why give it an IP?  All you need is an MX record
pointing to a mailserver configured to handle mail for the domain.  The A
record is unnecessary.

-richard

--
Richard Lotz
GPG Key:     http://students.washington.edu/rlotz/key.txt
Fingerprint: 6BD7 C584 7DDC 43FD F0D4  87AB 5A8F 89D5 B3CC 9517