Getting email, but no MX record?
Steven Job
lists at winnie.tiggee.com
Sun Feb 23 19:01:22 UTC 2003
Joe,
I believe that it will default to the eat-me.net MX record.
$ host -t mx eat-me.net
eat-me.net mail is handled by 10 mail.surewest.net.
eat-me.net mail is handled by 20 mail2.surewest.net.
-Steve
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Joe wrote:
> I have a subdomain called lunch.eat-me.net hosted on a Redhat 8.0 box
> running Apache/Sendmail at home. I have a company hosting www.eat-me.net
> (web/mail) and pointing lunch.eat-me.net (web only) traffic to my home
> server. There isn't a mx record for lunch.eat-me.net:
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;lunch.eat-me.net. IN MX
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>
> , but if I send an email to validuser at lunch.eat-me.net I would get it.
> What's the deal? Does the Internet just figure it out, or is there another
> real answer?
>
> -Joe
>
>
>
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