MX Records

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 30 18:30:47 UTC 1999


You can have

mysite.com. in a 1.2.3.4
mysite.com. in mx mysite.com.

Michael


Barry Trottier wrote:
> 
> Why are MX Records needed?
> 
> Can your site not receive mail without them?
> 
> Also, how can they be set up if you only have 1 IP address for your computer
> + site (ie the IP of the computer is the IP of the site).  It seemed by
> reading info on MX Records that they sent mail to a machine and it seemed
> that the machine needed to be an 'A' record and therefore have a different
> IP from the actual mysite.com IP.
> 
> Am I missing something here?
> 
> Thanks in advance.


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