Re: DNS Question

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:53:20 -0800

Mitch Wagers wrote:
>
> That was somewhat inclusive, because not all MX records point to the same
> domain. The point is you don't have www and mail hosts pointed at the same
> machine unless of course they run all of that software on one machine. None
> the less, if you create an MX record for domain.com that points to
> mail.domain.com and have an A record for mail.domain.com and an A record for
> domain.com that points to a webserver, your mail will be routed correctly
> and you can type "http://domain.com" to get the web site.

We have found LOTS of mailers are broken and don't use MX records
correctly. For this reason we always make sure the IN A is the
mail server.

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