Re: How to disable local delivery of mail

["Patrick Archibald" <patrick.archibald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walden

I thought using the A record in delivery of mail was incorrect too.

Putting a dummy IP address in the AS/400 host table causes other problems.

The AS/400 is not the DNS server for our network.

Thanx, PLA


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> > I've contacted IBM and they said there is no way to disable local
> > delivery as long as the IP address for our domain name points to the
> > AS/400.  I can't change that.
>
> So they prefer the A record for the domain over the MX record? That's
> not per-RFC and I'd say it's a bug.
>
> Now, that's doesn't help now, so... what about a dummy host entry on the
> 400 w/the a different ip for your domain so as to fool the local SMTP
> server? Does the 400 act as the DNS for the rest of your network?
>
> -Walden
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