Comment on Finding mid-00s DNS info?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days agoIf the DNS records for the mail server were missing, it would suggest that they didn’t intend to receive mail, even if a mail server were actually up.
Comment on Finding mid-00s DNS info?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days agoIf the DNS records for the mail server were missing, it would suggest that they didn’t intend to receive mail, even if a mail server were actually up.
kn33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But the records could’ve also been left up long after the server was taken down just out of laziness or mismanagement.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Certainly, and likely. In which case, the DNS records would tell us nothing.
But we can draw a completely different conclusion if the records were taken down deliberately.
det_nya_livet@aggregatet.org 1 day ago
And a different conclusion entirely if the records are seeing active updates during the time period :)