Help re: MX record
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Jun 2 19:43:13 UTC 1999
"David T. Smith" wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Or simply forget the expansion and enter the full name or a space in
thar position if the previous entry was another type of record for
ourdomain.net.
Like:
@ IN SOA (then the SOA stuff)
IN NS ns1.ourdomain.net.
IN MX 10 mail.ourdomain.net
Michael
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