[lug] MX records in DNS

[Greg Horne]

I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly what you mean.

Are both mail accounts set up on the SMTP server you are pointing at
(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)?

If just the web.host.dom has SMTP set up, but not the mail.host.dom it
won't work, or vice versa.

I would just point mail.host.dom and web.host.dom to the same server and
use virtual user tables or aliases to work it out.

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Greg Horne
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On
> Behalf Of Hugh Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:59 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] MX records in DNS
> 
> I am having some troubles with MX records for a web server.
> 
> I have a host named web.host.dom and a host named mail.host.dom
> 
> In dns I have the following
> 
> 
> host.dom.      IN      SOA     ns.host.dom.
hostmaster.ns.host.dom.
> (
>                         2001090912 ; serial
>                         3600 ; refresh after 1 hour
>                         900 ; retry after 15 minutes
>                         604800 ; expire after 1 week
>                         1800 ; default_ttl is 1 hour
>                         )
> 
> web                     IN      A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>                         IN      MX 0    mail
> 
> 
> 
> mail                    IN      A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>                         IN      MX 0    mail
> 
> 
> I assumed this meant that if I sent an email to hugh at web.host.dom that
> it should get sent to hugh at mail.host.dom
> 
> I tried it and got a bounced message back saying undeliverable.
> 
> Help.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
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