Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!xavier!jeremy From: jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Can non-Internet site handle others domains? Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 90 01:39:43 GMT References: <141@dynasys.UUCP> Sender: news@xavier.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Swarthmore College, PA, USA Lines: 17 emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >In article <141@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes: >To be more specific, the mechanism that provide you with mail forwarding >is the MX record, which has to point to a machine which has >an A record, like so Maybe I'm entering this discussion a little late, but why is this so? It seems that when a mailer looks up a host and finds an MX record, it should then start at the top again and look up that host, again to see if it has an MX record. This couldn't be difficult to implement, so why doesn't the protocol allow for this? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Jeremy Brest, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081 jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu, jeremy@swatsun.uucp, jeremy@swarthmr.bitnet