Secondary Mail Server entry

[Kevin Darcy]

You can't use an IP address as an MX target; it has to be a name. So replace
209.193.198.226 with "mail" and it should work.


- Kevin

Dragon Rider wrote:

> I'm having problems with this DNS table. It's setup to use 209.193.198.226
> as the primary e-mail. But if that mail server isnt available, I want it to
> use mail.wyvernweb.com.. am I doing everything correctly here?
>
> ; BIND version named 8.2.2-P3 Thu Nov 11 00:04:50 EST 1999
> ; BIND version
> root at porky.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/bind-8.2.2_P3/src/bin/named
> ; zone 'radioamerica.org'   last serial 1999113001
> ; from 216.50.23.2:53 (local 216.50.23.10) using AXFR at Tue Mar 28 14:42:13
> 2000
> $ORIGIN org.
> radioamerica    3600    IN      SOA     ns.wyvernweb.com.
> crogers.wyvernweb.com. (
>                 2000032801 3600 1800 180000 3600 )
>         3600    IN      NS      ns.wyvernweb.com.
>         3600    IN      NS      imp.wyvernweb.com.
>         3600    IN      MX      100 209.193.198.226.
>         3600    IN      MX      200 mail.wyvernweb.com.
>         3600    IN      A       216.50.23.112
> $ORIGIN radioamerica.org.
> mail    3600    IN      A       209.193.198.226
> www   3600    IN      A       216.50.23.112