[4438] in linux-net channel archive
Re: DNS and MX records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Lameter)
Mon Sep 16 15:08:14 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: clameter@miriam.fuller.edu (Christoph Lameter)
Date: 16 Sep 1996 07:58:11 -0700
Andrea Di Mento (hoo@wms.it) 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 ?
Its automatically forwarded.
