MX Record on a wildcard zone
Pete Ehlke
pde at ehlke.net
Fri Jul 12 13:34:26 UTC 2002
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:16:06AM -0400, Warrick FitzGerald wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm setting up a test lab in which I need to send any .com resolution to get
> to a specific web server. - This works great with the setup below.
>
> However I'm trying to add an MX record that resolves any .com mail to
> another server 10.10.52.114 in this case. Can someone please tell me why
> this simple config below does not work, and how I could achieve this ?
>
[snip]
> [root at TESTLINUX named]# cat com
> $TTL 1d
> @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
> 2002071201 ; Serial
> 28800 ; Refresh
> 14400 ; Retry
> 3600000 ; Expire
> 86400 ) ; Minimum
> IN NS localhost.
> com. IN MX 10 mail
>
> * IN A 10.10.52.100
> mail IN A 10.10.52.114
>
You've only defined an mx record for com. A.com. != com.
If you really want a wildcard MX, you have to explicitly define one.
-Pete
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