Re: [Sheflug] * on mail exchanger records

[nospam [at] alexhudson.com]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:17:30PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> some years ago a company called E.D.U. registered a domain called
> edu.com, and immediately put in an MX wildcard for that domain.
> Suddenly they found that every piece of email sent from any
> .com site to any American university was being redirected to their
> mail server!

I noticed that :-) I was hunting around Roxen Community RFC for a few cogent
examples of why wildcard MX was horrible, and I think that was in one of the
RFCs I read - entitled "Common DNS Errors" or somesuch :)) Making such a big
boob that you get into an RFC - that's style :)

Cheers,

Alex.

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