UNIX hosts and MX "best practice"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38943CAF.2186DBF7 at india.hp.com>,
Nitin.K. <nitink at india.hp.com> wrote:
>sorry for earlier confusion....

You still seem to be confused....

>   I guess it is better to specify  both as IN well as MX record if you are
>
>going to use  as mail exchanger it will simplify the address resolution.
>       If you do not  intend to use it as mail exchanger then specifying as
>IN is
>sufficient.
>regards
>nitin

What does "specifying as IN" mean?  Do you mean "specifying as A"?  All
common DNS entries are IN -- IN MX, IN A, IN CNAME, IN SOA, etc....

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