Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

[Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch () corp earthlink net>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:39:21 EDT, Christian Kuhtz said:
>  
>
> > william(at)elan.net wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Which indeed means they have no MX servers listed and that MAY be a 
> > > problem for some mail servers (though normally mail servers are 
> > > supposed to send email based on A record then).
> > >      
> > Uh, which mainstream mail server out there is ignorant enough not to 
> > send to A record?
> >    
>
> There's no MX record for fema.gov.  The *single* A record doesn't answer on
> port 25.  And there's no mail server I know of that's on enough crack that it
> thinks trying the 2 NS entries is acceptable....
>  
That wasn't the question, I'm well aware of the situation.  But thanks 
for playing ;-)