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Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:
MX record question |
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Experts,
I have a public DNS zone call it domain.com. Inside of that zone I have an
A record which looks like this:
mail Host (A) My.Public.IP.Address
I then created an MX record but not sure I did it right. Inside of the
same zone , it looks like this:
(same as parent folder) Mail Exchanger (MX) [10] mail.domain.com
Is this correct or is there another approach?
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Andrew Hodgson
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:
Re: MX record question |
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:35:32 -0500, "Spin" <Spin@spin.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Experts,
I have a public DNS zone call it domain.com. Inside of that zone I have an
A record which looks like this:
mail Host (A) My.Public.IP.Address
I then created an MX record but not sure I did it right. Inside of the
same zone , it looks like this:
(same as parent folder) Mail Exchanger (MX) [10] mail.domain.com
Is this correct or is there another approach?
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That looks ok.
Are you having issues with it?
Andrew.
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Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>. |
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Spin
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:50 am Post subject:
Re: MX record question |
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No particular problem, I guess the problem is my lack of understanding of
the nuances involved. Let me see if I can break down my understanding of
this into it's atomic parts.
1) "(same as parent folder)" is basically a synonym for domain.com.
2) "mail.domain.com" is the MX record for domain.com according to the below
line.
(same as parent folder) Mail Exchanger (MX) [10] mail.domain.com
3) I always thought an MX record was essentially a CNAME in disguise, it is
simply a name mapped to another name. Sort of like a special CNAME,
correct?
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Spin
"Andrew Hodgson" <me3@privacy.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | That looks ok.
Are you having issues with it?
Andrew.
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Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>. |
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