Re: MX lookup problems

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Andrew Houghton wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  Just so I'm sure I understand what you're 
> saying about CNAMEs and getAnyRecord, could the code I showed before be 
> rewritten as:
> 
> boolean checkDomain(String domain) {
>   if (dns.getAnyRecords(domain, Type.MX) == null) {
>     // no MX records, check for A
>     if (dns.getAnyRecords(domain, Type.A) == null) {
>       return false;
>     }
>   }
>   
>   return true;
> }

I believe so.

> The only difference being that the traversal is depth-first in this 
> case, so to speak.

Right.

> In any case, it looks like I'll have to implement the timeout myself.

Yes.

Brian