Search Again: Re: mx records From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 Time: 2:51:00 am >say I have domain.com > >domain.com has an A record of xxx.xxx.xxx.001 >mail.domain.com has a A of xxx.xxx.xxx.002 >someotherhost.domain.com has an A of xxx.xxx.xxx.003 > >domain.com has a MX pointing to xxx.xxx.xxx.002 You'd have the MX record pointing to mail.domain.com, which in turn has the A record above, right? >what happens to mail sent to person@someotherhost.domain.com? does it go to >someotherhost, and bounce, or to domain.com? It first looks for an MX record for someotherhost.domain.com. Failing to find one, it tries to go to someotherhost.domain.com directly (based on the A record). Failing that, it bounces. >Does it need a specific MX record or does the MX for domain.com cover >everything? To make it all go to your mail server, you'd add a wildcard MX record: *.domain.com. MX mail.domain.com. Of course, this can be overridden by more specific MX records. Also, it doesn't replace your original MX record (for domain.com). If your mail server doesn't accept wildcards, you'll have to enter every subdomain (hostname) manually to account for this. I believe SIMS can handle a wildcard entry in its routing table. NOTE: QuickDNS Pro supports wildcards with at least the current version. I don't know if the original version did or not, nor, if not, when it was added. I believe there may be other DNS servers out there that don't support wildcards. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com

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