[57335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Apr 3 21:19:13 2003
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:16:01 -0800
To: Indra PRAMANA <indra@indra.webvis.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> MX records are only required if you want to have more than one mail
> exchange servers to serve your domain, e.g. if you want to have a
> secondary mail server as a relay if the primary server goes down.
actually, i suspect the more common use is that one has a collector
server for a lot of local infrastructure, as in
@ A 666.42.7.11
foo A 666.42.7.12
MX 0 @
bar A 666.42.7.13
MX 0 @
randy
