[57334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Thu Apr 3 21:07:42 2003
To: Indra PRAMANA <indra@indra.webvis.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:13:51 +0800."
<5.1.0.14.2.20030404101142.02a2b670@indra.webvis.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:07:10 -0500
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <5.1.0.14.2.20030404101142.02a2b670@indra.webvis.net>, Indra PRAMANA
writes:
>If you only have one mail exchange server to serve your domain, you don't
>need MX records. An A record pointing to your mail server is sufficient.
I think what you meant was that an A record for your domain name is
sufficient.
Recall, A records don't point to anything -- they simply provide the
address.
Craig
