MX Record on Linux 9 Question

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 02/09/2004 08:02:02 PM:
> 
> I set up a dns server on a Linux 9 box using the DNS Tool.  When I add 
an
> MX record it creats it in a weied way.
> You cannot just add an mx record, you have to edit the properties of an
> existing host to ad the mx record.  Having used the dns tool, I can't 
add
> the mx record by editing the zone file. 
> 
> The dns tool makes it like this:
> 
> mail   IN   MX   10   mail.mydomain.com    #mail being the
> name of my mail host 
> 
> instead of like this:
> 
> 
>    IN   MX   10   mail.mydomain.com
> 
> Has anyone done this using the DNS tool?  Do you have any suggestions?
> Would the above render the mx record unusable?


If, you insist on using the tool, then, create a host for the domain 
itself:

@ A 192.168.1.5

then, edit that host to create the MX RR.


I think the tool is broken in its logic though...


Dave...





> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom Naves
> 
>