On 10/21/2010 04:02 AM, Christopher Koeber wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jeroen Geilman <jer...@adaptr.nl
<mailto:jer...@adaptr.nl>> wrote:
On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main
domain, which appears to be the case here:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
wesleyseminary.edu <http://wesleyseminary.edu/>. 43098
IN MX 10 mail1.no-ip.com <http://mail1.no-ip.com/>.
wesleyseminary.edu <http://wesleyseminary.edu/>. 43098
IN MX 15 mail2.no-ip.com <http://mail2.no-ip.com/>.
wesleyseminary.edu <http://wesleyseminary.edu/>. 43098
IN MX 5 mail.wesleyseminary.edu
<http://mail.wesleyseminary.edu/>.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
students.wesleyseminary.edu
<http://students.wesleyseminary.edu/>. 1674 IN MX 5
students.wesleyseminary.edu <http://students.wesleyseminary.edu/>.
Probably a good idea in any educational environment.
Yet totally superfluous; the A record suffices.
This is in reference to the myhostname setting?
No.
foo.bar MX 10 foo.bar is unnecessary, as any valid A record can receive
mail.
Since foo.bar has to be an A record (you're using it as the MX value)
the MX record is superfluous.
--
J.
