MX and NS RR questions / BIND 9

[James Raftery]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:47:19PM -0700, Ben Floyd wrote:
> is it OKAY to have an MX record in a zone file without an associated A
> RR in the same zone file?

Yes.

> It is assumed that the hosts given as MX and
> NS records will have valid A records in different zone files, possibly
> on different DNS servers.

Exactly.

Take the now.ie zone as an example. The A record for the now.ie zone's
MX is in the enigma.ie zone (b.mx.enigma.ie). Nothing unusual there...

jm
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James Raftery (JBR54)
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