The newspaper did not say which computer systems FEMA uses.
$ dig mx fema.gov ;; ANSWER SECTION: fima.org. 3600 IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net. fima.org. 3600 IN MX 10 mailstore1.secureserver.net
That's interesting -- I'm not getting that response.
Sorry about that, as you could probably get from dig, I did it on fima.gov instead ... correct one is: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;fema.gov. IN MX ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: fema.gov. 1642 IN SOA ns.fema.gov. root.ns2.fema.gov. 2005090901 10800 3600 604800 1800 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Which indeed means they have no MX servers listed and that MAY be a problem for some mail servers (though normally mail servers are supposed to send email based on A record then). Obviously not having MX record is not considered to be good email service setup in this century and it also means if they receive too many messages and their mail server can not handle all the connections, the mail will bounce (since there is no secondary mail server to go to). -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net