Re: Getting an SMTP Server address from DNS

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

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Revathi Velu wrote:

> Hi,

> I browsed in one of the sites that hotmail has upto 14 smtp servers.  
> (As an example) While using dnsjava,
> 
>                         Record result[] =
> org.xbill.DNS.dns.getAnyRecords("hotmail.com", Type.MX);
>                         for (int i = 0 ; i<result.length ; i++ )
>                              {
> 
> System.out.println(result[i].rdataToString());
>                               }
> 
> gives me only 4 addresses. Am I doing the right thing. Pls correct me if I
> am wrong. I would appreciate some code samples.

It gives you 4 MX records.  Each MX record contains a name, not an 
address.  For example, one of them contains mx1.hotmail.com.  If you look 
up the addresses for mx1.hotmail.com, you'll find that there are 3 of 
them.

Brian