clarification

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, rams wrote:

> I have a record in BIND as follows:
>  
> mxdomain.com. 86400 IN MX 65536 gmail.com.

How did you get named to load this?

If your named does load it, what version of BIND are you using?

You should get "out of range". (See named-checkzone too.)

> When I query "mxdomain.com." with type MX. What is the bind response. Is
> there any RFC mentioned about this .

I didn't test with BIND 9 (because can't load it), but with BIND 10 
(using a SQL database) returns SERVFAIL.