Help re: MX record
David T. Smith
dsmith at uswebcks.com
Wed Jun 2 18:26:44 UTC 1999
At 04:47 PM 6/2/99 GMT, sabbah22 at my-deja.com wrote:
>
>Well, for ourdomain.net, which is one of 5 files for 3 subdomains our
>DNS handles, the file contains one MX record as follows:
>
>* IN MX 10 Mail
This may be your problem. The wildcard in the above line will expand to:
*.ourdomain.net IN MX 10 Mail.ourdomain.net
which will supply an MX response for all names within the ourdomain.net
zone, but _not_ for the zone itself. To get an MX record for the
ourdomain.net zone (so that user at ourdomain.net gets resolved),
you need to have a record like the following:
@ IN MX 10 Mail
which will expand to
ourdomain.net. IN MX 10 Mail.ourdomain.net.
You should also look at the suggestions made by Joseph Yao re: sendmail.
DTS
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