Need to provide MX for 2 domains, but no public computers on one

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Aug 20 00:41:01 UTC 1999


In article <2A7687211800D211A00C0060B05722280172C0BA at lynx.thecreek.com>,
Ben Kosse  <BKosse at thecreek.com> wrote:
>I've got 2 domains I need to provide MX records for (thecreek.com and
>pkb.thecreek.com), but no matter what I do, every time I try to do a lookup
>on the secondary domain (pkb), I get a server error. Presumably, I don't
>have it configured correctly, but I can't figure out how to go about that?
>
>Any ideas where to start?

It seems to work fine for me:

% dig pkb.thecreek.com mx @ns.thecreek.com

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> pkb.thecreek.com mx @ns.thecreek.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 3, Auth: 0, Addit: 3
;; QUESTIONS:
;;	pkb.thecreek.com, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
pkb.thecreek.com.	3600	MX	10 pkbexc01.pkb.thecreek.com.
pkb.thecreek.com.	3600	MX	20 ns.thecreek.com.
pkb.thecreek.com.	3600	MX	30 ns12.dmi.net.

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