[wplug] Mysterious Mail log entries

Jonathan Billings jsbillings at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 13:53:32 EDT 2005


On 7/18/05, Poyner, Brandon <bpoyner at ccac.edu> wrote:

> $ host -t mx roswellrevealed.com
> roswellrevealed.com mail is handled by 0 127.0.1.51.

I should point out that MX records that are IP addresses are often signs of:
1.) Spammer host
2.) Clueless sysadmins

... since MX records must be A records (I don't think they can be
anything but an A record) and not an IP address.

-- 
  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com



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