MX Record Question

[Kevin Darcy]

If you insist on organizing your zonefile in that particular order, then your
only reasonable choice for substituting "HERE?" is "@". Personally, though,
I'd put the MX record above the $ORIGIN and then all it would require is
leading whitespace in order to be parsed correctly. For that matter, I'd
ditch the $ORIGIN's completely (they make the zonefile hard to read, in my
opinion), use a default TTL (with the $TTL directive) instead of explicit
TTLs on every RR, and use "@" instead of "domain" on the left-hand side of
the SOA RR. This way, you wouldn't even need to fully qualify the NS or
MX targets. So, in my version, it would be:

$TTL 3600
@ soa domain.com. steve.domain.com. (
  1 7200 1800 604800 86400 )
 ns ns1
 ns nx2
 a x.x.x.169
 mx 10 gateway
webmail a x.x.x.3
gateway a x.x.x.5

(You'd never tell it from my verbose writing style, but at heart I'm a
minimalist).

You really should acquaint yourself with master file format. This is pretty
basic stuff.

                                             - Kevin

Steve [MCP] wrote:

> I have the following info in my zone file.  If you have trouble reading it
> because of formatting I have the ASCII file at
> http://home.earthlink.net/~opposite3/dns.txt
>
> $ORIGIN com.
> domain 3600 IN SOA domain.com. steve.domain.com. (
>   1 7200 1800 604800 86400 )
>  3600 IN NS ns1.x.x.
>  3600 IN NS nx2.x.x,
>  3600 IN A x.x.x.169
> $ORIGIN domain.com.
> webmail 3600 IN A x.x.x.3
> HERE? 3600 IN MX 10 gateway.domain.com.
> gateway 3600 IN A x.x.x.5
>
> The info has been sanitized obviously.
>
> For the MX record of HERE? 3600 IN MX 10 gateway.domain.com. what should I
> put for HERE? if I want it to appaly for a e-mail address like
> steve at domain.com
>
> Steve