Requesting assistance with mailserver setup..

[Charles Bodley]

@        IN      MX 10 mail.mccormickweb.net.
don't know if you need the at or not but you need IN. (I think, still
newbie)
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Thor Kottelin
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:30 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Requesting assistance with mailserver setup..





Matt McCormick wrote:
>
> I meant addresses like foo at mccormickweb.net.  It's kind of working, but in
> the zone config I have mailserver as mail.mccormickweb.net, and users can
> only send mail to foo at mail.mccormickweb.net, rather than
> foo at mccormickweb.net.

> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> news:95t0cj$gtu at pub3.rc.vix.com...

> > foo mx 0 mail
> > bar mx 0 mail

> > > I'd like to create some
> e-mail
> > > addresses in the domain, but I'm having trouble.  Here's the zone
file,
> any
> > > suggestions?:
> > >
> > > @ IN SOA ns.mccormickweb.net. matt.mccormickweb.net. (
> > >
> > >     3 ; Serial
> > >
> > >     8H ; Refresh
> > >
> > >     2H ; Retry
> > >
> > >     2W ; Expire
> > >
> > >     1D ) ; Minimum
> > >
> > >  NS ns
> > >
> > > MX 10 mail.mccormickweb.net.

The line above has the owner MX, thus doesn't make any sense. You probably
want the owner to be @, so start the line with whitespace.

Thor

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