[dns-operations] about list's MX
Chris Thompson
cet1 at cam.ac.uk
Tue May 27 11:52:26 UTC 2014
On May 26 2014, Frank Denis wrote:
>
>On May 25, 2014, at 6:25 PM, hua peng <huapeng at arcor.de> wrote:
>> If no MX provided, how will the messages be routed?
>
> If no MX records are found, mail exchangers try A records.
>
> See section 5 of RFC2821.
Or AAAA records (trumping that with section 5 of RFC 5321). Though
which it should try first will "depend on local circumstances, such
as performance of the relevant networks" ...
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