IP Adress in MX Records

[Kevin Darcy]

Depends on what you mean by "OK". It's syntactically correct, but
useless, since there is no A record in the DNS for "210.184.43.6" or any
of those other MX targets.


- Kevin

Hermann Strassner wrote:

> Is it OK to have IP Adresses in MX records?
>
> > apparelasia.com
> Server:  cache02.ns.de.uu.net
> Address:  193.101.111.10
>
> apparelasia.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = 210.184.43.6
> apparelasia.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = 210.184.43.2
> apparelasia.com MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = 210.184.43.4
> apparelasia.com MX preference = 40, mail exchanger = 202.135.11.1
>
> Hermann Straßner
> EDV Server- und Netzwerkmanagement
> Hama GmbH & Co.
> Tel.: +49 9091 502 433
> Fax.: +49 9091 502 77 433