[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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