On 2008-04-04 22:46:17 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Since data entry software matters and noone else has mentioned that
area, I searched CPAN and found three modules to help verify email
addresses in web forms etc., namely Mail::Verify, Net::validMX and
Email::Valid. All three do MX/A lookups, none do AAAA lookups.
The first two are IPv4 only. They also check if there are A records for
the RHS of the MX records and return an error if they can't find any.
So they will also flag
example.org. IN MX 1 mx1.example.org.
IN MX 10 mx10.example.org.
mx1.example.org. IN AAAA 2001:db8:ffff::1
mx10.example.org. IN AAAA 2001:db8:ffff::2
as invalid.
The third just checks if there is an MX record, but doesn't check the
contents in any way. So
example.org. IN MX 1 no-such-host.invalid.
will be reported as valid.
Neither behaviour really reflects the validity of a domain if there is
IPv6 connectivity (although the first makes some sense as a generic
test: Any domain reachable only via IPv6 can be considered unreachable
in practice now and at least for the next few years).
hp
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