MX resord

[Kevin Darcy]

A subzone is not necessary. I believe:

whatever.mydomain.com.    in    mx    0    whatever.mydomain.com.
whatever.mydomain.com.    in    a    x.x.x.x

would suffice. I.e. a new subdomain, but not a new subzone. Technically speaking,
you wouldn't even need the MX record, but since mailers follow up a
non-productive MX query with an A query, it's more efficient for the MX record to
exist.


- Kevin

Prashant Ranade wrote:

> Hello,
> yes I think you will have to create another zone for whatever.mydomain.com...
> create the zone file for that zone, create the delegation record for that zone
> in the parents zone file and then create the MX record for that zone. you can
> host this zone on the same server where you are hosting mydomain.com...
> I think so because if you don't create this zone then the dns for the
> mydomain.com is not going to know where to deliver the mail for
> urname at whatever.mydomain.com. it only knows MS records for mydomain.com
> let me know if you can get away without ceating any new zone
> hope this helps
> Prashant
>
> Jerry Hsieh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please help. I have 2 meial sevrers and these 2 mail servers are
> > independent.
> > For example, I have a mail account jerry at mydomain.com on the mydomain.com
> > already. But I would like to have another mail jerry at whatever.mydomain.com
> > on the whatever.mydomain.com machine. My question is, what should I do for
> > the MX record? Or I should create another zone for
> > whatever.mydomain.com?Thanks for your time.
> >
> >  mydomain.com.   IN      MX      10      mail.mydomain.com
> > ???????????????  IN      MX      ??      whatever.mydomain.com
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jerry