syntax

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9su4a7$6vj at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Charles Bodley <bodley at tflogic.com> wrote:
>
>Is this the correct syntax to specify a MX record for a sub domain?
>granted gloria.internal.tflogic.com will not respond it is internal.
>Yet my dig response did not include this. the answer.
>What I want is MX queries for *.dev.thinkingfolders.com to resolve to
>gloria.internal.tflogic.com What would this syntax be?

$ORIGIN dev.thinkingfolders.com.
*   MX   10 gloria.internal.tflogic.com.

You left out the "*".  A line that begins with whitespace is another record
for the name on the previous line, so you defined an MX record for
login-b.dev.thinkingfolders.com.

>$ORIGIN dev.thinkingfolders.com.
>$TTL 30 ; 30 seconds
>
>login-a         A       216.68.75.194
>login-b         A       216.68.75.202
>                        MX      10 gloria.internal.tflogic.com.
>
>


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