FQDN's and mail MX's

[Thor Kottelin]

Ray Bush wrote:

> Should (as in does it
> need to be) mail mx's be fully qualified domain names?

If you mean EXCHANGE (the rightmost portion of an MX record), yes. If you
don't explicitly qualify the name in your zone file, the origin will be
appended.

IOW...

$ORIGIN example.com.
@	MX	10	pop

equals:

$ORIGIN example.com.
@	MX	10	pop.example.com.

Thor

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