[KLUG Members] DNS MD record type?

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
06 Mar 2002 07:05:25 -0500


>>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-)

Why is that?  Maybe you should see a counselor about your self esteem, 
but thats probably an off-list topic.  Oh, by the way,  how is the
Bind/DNS presentation coming?

>It's a Mail Destination Record. It apparently defined the final delivery 
>point of the mail 

Huh?

>and has been obsolete for 10+ years. Replaced by the MX record.

Great!  "Obsolete" makes documentation easy.

Thanks.