[4413] in linux-net channel archive
Re: DNS and MX records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Izauddin Mohd Isa)
Mon Sep 16 00:39:16 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:37:30 -0800 (GMT+8)
From: Izauddin Mohd Isa <izauddin@guru.polycyber.com.my>
To: Andrea Di Mento <hoo@wms.it>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609151347.OAA02450@ns.wms.it>
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Andrea Di Mento wrote:
> Mine is not a problem , just a doubt.
> I 've implemented the DNS system on my network and everything
> seems OK. My doubt is related just whit the MX records.
> They seems like:
> IN MX 100 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> IN MX 150 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxy
> etc..
> I 've read that xxx should be the primary E-mail server and xxy
> the seconday and so on.
> So my doubt is : if xxx is down the mail should go to xxy.When xxx
> comes up , the E-mail is automatically forwarded to it or it remain
> on xxy ?
>
> Andrea Di Mento
>
Hi Andrea,
Yes when xxx is down all the mails to your domain will go to xxy, and xxx
comes up it won't automatically forwarded to it.
Rgds
Din
