MX Record
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Sun Nov 24 02:09:25 UTC 2002
At 02:22 PM 10/21/02, Warrick FitzGerald wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Am I correct in assuming that one needs to explicity define an MX record for
>each sub domain defined within a zone file.
>
>For Example.
>
>If I own the domain DomainA.com and I add an entry that looks like this
>
>DomainA.com. IN MX 10 mail.Domain.com
>
>Anyone sending an email to xx at domainA.com will use that explicit record.
>
>What happens id someone now sends an email to xx at subdomain.DomainA.com
>
>With the resolver fail trying to find the MX record for that domain ? If so
>am I correct in assuming you need to add another MX record that looks like
>this
>
>SubDomain.DomainA.com. IN MX 10 mail.Domain.com
>
>In order to get the sub domains email to work ?
Yes, unless you want the email delivered to an SMTP server running on
the subdomain.
Danny
>Thanks
>Warrick
>
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