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Posted to server-dev@james.apache.org by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com> on 2004/04/23 00:03:24 UTC

MX records with IP addresses

FYI, dnsjava's org.xbill.DNS.Address and java.net.InetAddress exhibit
another difference in behavior.  Given an MX record such as:

 my.tld    86400   IN      MX      10 111.222.333.444.

dnsjava will view the RHS as a domain name (as per the RFCs), which cannot
be looked up, whereas java.net will interpret it as an IP address.  This
means that we cannot send e-mail to @my.tld addresses.  Brian does not
consider this something to fix, at least in dnsjava, as it is an RFC
violation.

Thoughts?

	--- Noel


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