Placement of MX records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a36ttj$iht at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Al Licause  <al.licause at compaq.com> wrote:
>
>I have noticed that if a A record immediately preceeds an MX record in
>our v8.2.2-P5 bind servers, that MX record will be associated with the
>A record and not the domain....for example:

When you indent a line, it means you're defining an additional record for
the name from the previous line.

>Have I misunderstood the intent of bind v8 in this case or is the
>database
>parsing in error ?

It sounds like you misunderstand the syntax of zone files.

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