Placement of MX records

[Michael Kjorling]

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BIND is correct. Since you preceed the record type (class/type pair in
this case) with whitespace, it inherits the owner name from the
previous record.

By the way you do want to upgrade - BIND 8.2.2-P5 is vulnerable to
remote root exploits.


Michael Kjörling


On Jan 29 2002 14:27 -0500, Al Licause wrote:

> I have noticed that if a A record immediately preceeds an MX record in
> our v8.2.2-P5 bind servers, that MX record will be associated with the
> A record and not the domain....for example:
>
> node1        IN        A                10.10.8.34
>                   IN        MX   10     mailhub.mydomain.com.
>
> #nslookup
> > set type=mx
> > mydomain.com
>
> We don't see the MX record.   The only way to see this MX record is to
> specify node1.mydomain.com to nslookup.     But if I either move the MX
> record above all A records or preface the MX record with either an "@"
> sign or the
> domainname as such:
>
> mydomain.com.        IN    MX        10  mailhub.mydomain.com.

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