MX Record

[Kevin Darcy]

No, that would make it a backup. Given your existing record, the preference
value should be 10, if you want SMTP senders to randomize between the servers.

By the way, there's really no good reason to use preferences like 10 or 20. A 0
preference for both MX'es would work just as well in this case.


- Kevin

Sam Mabjish wrote:

> mydomain.com.   IN      MX      20      whatever.mydomain.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Hsieh [mailto:jerry at intervideo.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 4:31 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: MX Record
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple question, please help me to figure this out, thanks.
> I already have an email server (mail.mydomain.com) running for my domain and
> I would like to add another mail server (whatever.mydomain.com - not backup,
> not secondary....). What should I do for the MX record?
>
> mydomain.com.   IN      MX      10      mail.mydomain.com
> mydomain.com.   IN      MX      ??      whatever.mydomain.com
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry