On 2022-06-30 at 17:00:50 UTC-0400 (Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:00:50 -0700)
Michael Peddemors via mailop <mich...@linuxmagic.com>
is rumored to have said:

I know this doesn't look professional, but the question from the team member does this contravene any rules or best practices.

list-manage.com

This domain does not have any A records.
It has a single MX record pointed at:

  mail.admin.mailchimp.com

That hostname exists, but it doesn't have an A RECORD.

It in turn has just a single MX Record.

  inbound-mx1.mailchimpapp.net

Kind of a strange MX delegation.. I assume to avoid CNAME's

Avoid CNAMEs isn't the rule. The rule is that the name resolved by a MX MUST be a primary hostname, i.e. it MUST have an A record.

So this isn't just 'strange,' it simply should not work.


But it does seem very strange. Comments anyone? I didn't have an answer for him..

        -- Michael --

Have a great long weekend all.. Was going to write a matching long 'state' of the union (activity) but it is too sunny out.. short form is..

* Sendgrid Really bad this week again
* Mailgun having similar situation?
* More PREFIX BROKERS MNT IP space coming out, same bad guys as usual, Serverion et al. Some complimentary activity from Russion hosters.
* OVH Still handing out IP ranges to show shoe spammers
* Short Bot Traffic run beginning of week, but quieted quickly
* Gmail, Gmail Gmail..
* Increase in random compromises on VPS providers, OVH, DreamHost, StratoServer
* Increase in Japanese based spammers..




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