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RFC 7505
Title: A "Null MX" No Service
Resource Record for Domains That Accept
No Mail
Author: J. Levine, M. Delany
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: June 2015
Mailbox: standards@taugh.com,
mx0dot@yahoo.com
Pages: 6
Characters: 12534
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx-10.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7505
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7505
Internet mail determines the address of a receiving server through
the DNS, first by looking for an MX record and then by looking for an
A/AAAA record as a fallback. Unfortunately, this means that the
A/AAAA record is taken to be mail server address even when that
address does not accept mail. The No Service MX RR, informally
called "null MX", formalizes the existing mechanism by which a domain
announces that it accepts no mail, without having to provide a mail
server; this permits significant operational efficiencies.
This document is a product of the Applications Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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