MX Record Sub-Domain Problem

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Apr 23 16:32:02 UTC 2002


In article <aa421t$smk at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
William Benneke <william.bennecke at ey-as.com> wrote:
>I wanted to do something like this:
>
>> >$TTL    3600
>> >@       IN      SOA     ns1.ey-as.com. postmaster.ey-as.com. (
>> >                        2002041806
>> >                        10800
>> >                        3600
>> >                        604800
>> >                        3600 )
>> >
>> >; Name servers
>> >;
>> >;
>> >                                        IN NS ns1.ey-as.com.
>> >                                        IN NS ns2.ey-as.com.
>> >                                        IN MX  10 chntmail01.ey-as.com.
>> >                                        IN MX  10 chntmail02.ey-as.com.
>sub                                        IN MX  10 chuxtst01.ey-as.com.
>> >;;                                      IN NS ns2.ey-as.com.

Maybe when you did it you forgot to comment out the NS record after the
"sub IN MX" line.  That would cause the subdomain to be delegated, which
would then require the MX record to be in the sub.cgeygoa.com zone file on
ns2 instead of the cgeygoa.com zone on ns1.

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