MX RR

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Apr 28 15:20:58 UTC 2000


In article <39090DC0.B7756D41 at technoworks.net>,
Christy WU  <tfwu at technoworks.net> wrote:
>                                    IN      MX      10 xxx.xxx.xxx.162.
>       *.xyz.org.hk.        IN      MX      10 xxx.xxx.xxx.162.
>       www                     IN      A       xxx.xxx.xxx.3
>
>Is the MX syntax correct?

No.  MX records point to host *names*, not IP addresses.

Sheesh, you'd think that a company whose business is providing mail service
would know the basic syntax of MX records, or would at least have someone
who could read the appropriate RFC.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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