newbie - MX at nonstandard port setup in BIND

[Matthew Thompson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Zorzenon Neto [mailto:pzn at terra.com.br]
> Sent: 16 February 2001 13:33

>   I have a mail server that I want to receive mail.
>   As my ISP policy is not let me receive incoming conections 
> on port 25, I set up my mail server in a non standard port.
>   Now comes the question:
>   How do I specify in the DNS server (BIND 8.2.3) that a MX 
> is in a non standard port?

You can't.

Bind deals with names and not ports. You'd need a host on the unrestricted
internet set up to forward mail to your machine at the specific port.

M at T :o)