Search Again: Re: War zone From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2000 Time: 2:41:00 pm At 3:13 PM +0100 2/2/00, Molnár Simon wrote: >on 2/2/00 2:53 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > >> I don't see changing MX records; it comes up with the same answers every time. >Well, I wonder why my copy of DNS Expert did it. Is it still exhibiting this behavior? >> The mail servers so mentioned have corresponding A records: >> mgw.nokia.com. A 131.228.20.21 >> mgw.nokia.com. A 131.228.20.22 >> mgw-x1.nokia.com. A 131.228.20.21 >> mgw-x2.nokia.com. A 131.228.20.22 >> >> It would appear that they have two mail gateways that relay incoming >> mail for all names in their domain to their private, internal mail >> servers. It's a bit messy, but it should work just fine. >So, would it be a good idea to set up my mail server to route all messages >that are addressed to domains hupe.ncp.nokia.com, nmp.nokia.com, >ntc.nokia.com directly to mgw.nokia.com, or would it make no difference? If you're worried about their DNS being ephemeral or unreliable, this configuration does make some sense. This way, your mail server only needs to look up the A records for mgw.nokia.com, rather than looking for MX records first. However, if Nokia ever changes anything, you could have problems. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: War zone by Molnár Simon on Feb 2, 2000 at 1:28:00 pm Re: War zone by Peter Nilsson on Feb 2, 2000 at 1:43:00 pm Re: War zone by Men & Mice Support on Feb 2, 2000 at 1:53:00 pm Re: War zone by Molnár Simon on Feb 2, 2000 at 2:13:00 pm Re: War zone by Men & Mice Support on Feb 2, 2000 at 2:41:00 pm Re: War zone by Molnár Simon on Feb 2, 2000 at 2:50:00 pm Re: War zone by Men & Mice Support on Feb 2, 2000 at 3:15:00 pm Re: War zone by Molnár Simon on Feb 2, 2000 at 3:28:00 pm Re: War zone by Men & Mice Support on Feb 2, 2000 at 3:45:00 pm