Loading MX record with illegal preference (Lame subject replaced: clarification

[John Wingenbach]

https://www.isc.org/files/arm96.html#types_of_resource_records_and_when_to_use_them

Scroll down to the data type MX and it says:

Identifies a mail exchange for the domain with a 16-bit preference value 
(lower is better) followed by the host name of the mail exchange. 
Described in RFC 974, RFC 1035.

-- John

On 10/22/2010 8:39 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:01:22PM +0530,
>   rams<bramesh80 at gmail.com>  wrote
>   a message of 42 lines which said:
>
>> I have a record in BIND as follows:
>>
>> mxdomain.com. 86400 IN MX 65536 gmail.com.
> I don't think you tell us the truth. Because BIND refuses to load it:
>
> % named-checkzone example large-mx.zone
> dns_rdata_fromtext: large-mx.zone:15: near '65536': out of range
> zone example/IN: loading from master file large-mx.zone failed: out of range
> zone example/IN: not loaded due to errors.
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