MX records

[Karyn Williams]

We get mail addressed to:

user at calarts.edu
user at muse.calarts.edu
user at indy1.calarts.edu

and it should all go to muse.calarts.edu.

If muse is the mailhost, why does it need an MX record ? 


At 10:38 AM 12/9/02 -0700, Cricket Liu wrote:
>
>Karyn Williams wrote:
>> All mail send to this domain should go to muse.calarts.edu. From what
>> I have read MX records are only for mail addressed to one host/domain
>> to be forwarded to another. Is there any reason to have the MX record
>> pointing to the addressed host (1) ?
>> 
>> calarts.edu.    IN      A       198.182.157.5
>>                 IN      MX 0    muse
>> ;
>> ;
>> ;
>> ; IP block 198.182.157.0 through 198.182.157.255
>> ;
>> www.calarts.edu. IN     CNAME   muse
>> indy1           IN      MX 0    muse
>> muse            IN      A       198.182.157.5
>>                 IN      MX 0    muse             <---------------(1)
>
>Only if you expect, or want to allow, people to address mail
>to <user>@muse.calarts.edu.
>
>cricket
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Karyn Williams, CNE
Network Services Manager
California Institute of the Arts
karyn at calarts.edu
http://www.calarts.edu/network