Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-18 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
At 06:29 17/01/2008, Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: a) when RFC 2821 was written IPv6 existed and RFC 2821 acknowledged its existance. It did DID NOT say synthesize from . RFC 2821 only talks about IPv6 domain literals. The MX resolution

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-17 Thread Mark Andrews
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: a) when RFC 2821 was written IPv6 existed and RFC 2821 acknowledged its existance. It did DID NOT say synthesize from . RFC 2821 only talks about IPv6 domain literals. The MX resolution algorithm in section 5 is written as if in

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-16 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: Since when has Informational been equivalent to Standard? Since (a) there is no standards-track specification to override it, and (b) all implementations follow RFC 3974, and (c) it's the obvious extension of v4 behaviour to v6. I should have said

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-16 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Tony Finch wrote: I should have said in my previous message that not only do the most popular MTAs fall back to , but BIND also includes in the additional section of MX replies, which re-inforces the RFC 3974 interpretation. Er, no it doesn't. I should have had

2821bis and IPv6 (was: houston.rr.com MX fubar?)

2008-01-16 Thread Frank Ellermann
Tony Finch wrote:ed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: Since when has Informational been equivalent to Standard? Since (a) there is no standards-track specification to override it, and (b) all implementations follow RFC 3974, and (c) it's the obvious extension of v4 behaviour to v6. That

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Andrews
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: Since when has Informational been equivalent to Standard? Since (a) there is no standards-track specification to override it, and (b) all implementations follow RFC 3974, and (c) it's the obvious extension of v4 behaviour to v6. I should have

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Andrews
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: Since there is no [MX] fallback to Wrong. http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg49841.html Tony. Since when has Informational been equivalent to Standard? Synthesizing a MX record on NODATA to a MX