[PLUG] Small business email and DNS

Sean Whitney sean.whitney at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 22:14:18 UTC 2007


Your are correct about the preference value, I forgot to put it in place....

Sean

Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitney <sean.whitney at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> Sean> $ORIGIN rt.ourdomain.org 
> Sean>      IN A 10.10.10.10 
> Sean> mail IN A 10.10.10.10
> Sean>      IN MX mail.rt.outdomain.org
>
> Sean> and added it to our domain file.
>
> I think you need an:
>
> @       IN MX  <pref> mail.rt.ourdomain.org
>
> (note the "@") or it is matching the previous "mail" line.  Or perhaps
> this would work (untested):
>
>   $ORIGIN rt.ourdomain.org 
>        IN A 10.10.10.10 
>        IN MX <pref> mail.rt.outdomain.org
>   mail IN A 10.10.10.10
>        IN MX <pref> mail.rt.outdomain.org
>
> My bind book seems to say you need the "preference value" in an MX
> record.
>
>
>   



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