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From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
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Date: 16 Jun 89 22:54:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: allbery@ncoast.ORG's message of 15 Jun 89 23:54:02 GMT

In article <13756@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
   ...that is, we have an "MX" record in the nameserver which gives
   the IP address (indirectly, via another lookup?...)

Nope, MX records can't point to other MXs.  See RFC974.