Help re: MX record

[David T. Smith]

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.

You should also look at the suggestions made by Joseph Yao re: sendmail.

DTS


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