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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: Is your email OK Steven
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 00:35:09 GMT
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Thanks.

That's funny, because I am the DNS operator, and I purposely put IP
addresses instead of hostnames (because some DNS servers complain
about mx records pointing to names).

It's odd that you couldn't reach either of the machines though.

Steven

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:10:41 +0000, Tony Ross
<ARoss@trsoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi Steven (and apologies to everybody else)
>When I tried to email you back the other day I got this in the
>undelivered mail message
>
>A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
>The
>following address(es) failed:
>
>  sosman@terratron.com:
>    all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts:
>    it appears that the DNS operator for this domain has installed an
>invalid MX record with an IP address instead of a domain name on the
>right hand side
>
>
>Just so you know that I did reply.
>Cheers!