27 May
2015
27 May
'15
8:36 p.m.
On 5/27/15 8:33 PM, Don Fanning wrote:
I'd like to try it out then, as I'm certain this doesn't work that way in
most
resolvers for MX's. I've run into it before even.
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> (Please
trim inclusions from previous messages)
> > > RFC5321 in Section 5 [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-5]
> states:
> > >
> > > "The lookup first attempts to locate an MX record associated with the
> name. If
> > > a CNAME record is found, the
> > > resulting name is processed as if it were the initial name.*"*
>
> This means if the lookup for www.example.com. returns CNAME example.com,
> it
> will use the MX records under example.com., not anything under the CNAME
> record www.example.com.
>
>
That is not true at all. The previous paragraph states that it must
process the entire FQDN and not many any inferences as to the domain's
relationship with the FQDN.