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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Can sendmail use BIND MB records?
Message-ID: <17735@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 15:18:52 GMT
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In article <3220@awdprime.UUCP> jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) writes:
>It is *very* logical, and that's the idea of the MB and MG records, but
>unfortunately your sendmail doesn't deal with them.  At least up to 5.61,
>all it knows to do is query for MX records for the recipient hosts.  The
>sendmail in IBM's AIX 3.1 does support MB, MG, and MR records, but I
>haven't heard of another one that does.  That surprises me, considering how
>simple and useful a feature it is.

That's a mistake.  The MB, MG, and MR records in the DNS are experimental
only, and should NOT be used in production software.  Paul Mockapetris can
probably clarify that further.
	- Brian