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Re: mx records

From: Aaron Lynch
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Time: 3:59:00 am


> 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?


Thanks, I guess it was the search order I was onfused about

> To make it all go to your mail server, you'd add a wildcard MX record:
> *.domain.com. MX mail.domain.com.

COOL!!! that I didn't know about at all :) very nice.

Thank you chris :)

~Aaron

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aaron@digispeed.com

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