[57336] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Indra PRAMANA)
Thu Apr 3 21:25:33 2003
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:36:29 +0800
To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
From: Indra PRAMANA <indra@indra.webvis.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200304040207.h3427AwT086455@aland.bbn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 09:07 PM 4/3/2003 -0500, Craig Partridge wrote:
> >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.
Yes, that's what I meant.
>Recall, A records don't point to anything -- they simply provide the
>address.
Thanks for the correction.
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