What am I missing? MX question

[Michael Voight]

What in the world is *hostname?

Michael

Max Clark wrote:
> 
> I would set this up a little differently:
> 
> mysite.com.            IN    A    xxx.xxx.73.26
> *hostname              IN    A    xxx.xxx.73.26
> mail                        IN    A    xxx.xxx.73.27
> www                      IN    CNAME    *hostname
>                               IN    MX    10    mail
> 
> That should work for ya.
> 
> steve wrote:
> 
> > localhost.mysite.com.   IN  A  127.0.0.1
> >
> > mysite.com.       IN  A  xxx.xxx.73.26
> > mail.mysite.com. IN A xxx.xxx.73.27
> > www.mysite.com.    IN  CNAME mysite.com.
> >
> > ; global MX records for unspecified members of the zone
> > *.mysite.com.     IN  MX  10  mail.mysite.com. ;GLOBALOK
> >
> > ; MX records for email addressed to the zone itself
> >  *.mysite.com.       IN  MX  10  mail.mysite.com. ;EXTREF
> >
> > E-mail sent from someone in the domain to someone else in the domain
> > seem to work.
> > E-mail sent from the domain to outside the domain work.
> > Mail sent from outside the domain to the domain bounces with 550
> > <someone at mysite.com>... Host unknown (Name server: mysite.com: host not
> > found).