Is this an okey mx record?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <816am8$2faj$1 at news.cybercity.dk>, mgx <user at home.foo> wrote:
>Is this an okey mx record?
>
>boxy             IN NS  boxy
>                 IN MX  10 boxy

If you're delegating the boxy subdomain, all other records for the
subdomain must be on boxy, in its zone file.  If you have a record like
this in the parent zone file, named should be complaining that the record
is outside the zone.

>domain.org.      IN A   192.168.0.1
>                 IN MX  10 boxy
>
>boxy.domain.org. IN A   192.168.0.1
>                 IN MX  10 boxy
>
>It seems to work alright with qmail but I just want to make sure that
>the MX is right according to bind rules.

All that BIND cares about is syntax, and it will complain in the log if you
don't get that right.

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