[KLUG Members] DNS MD record type?

John Bridleman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:36:01 -0500


* Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> I'm in the course of adding a Bind/DNS/SDB section to my LDAP
> presentation,  but I've run across something I haven't seen before.
> 
> A DNS record of type "MD".  Anyone seen one of these before and know
> what it's for?
> 
> Every other DNS record type defined in Cosine or dNSZone has a
> description, except MD.
> 
I'm going to hate myself for this but.... 8-)

It's a Mail Destination Record. It apparently defined the final delivery point of the mail and has been obsolete for 10+ years. Replaced by the MX record.
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