Adding MX to an alias
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Dec 12 05:01:50 UTC 2003
In article <brasuk$29qc$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Simon Waters <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Jim McCullars wrote:
> >
> > Create an A record for exponent, with the IP address of info, and then an
> > MX to email? If I do that, will I break the sendmail (or something else)
> > on email or info?
> I'd probably do it that way, and it shouldn't break anything, if it does
> whatever broke was too brittle ;)
>
> You could also do a wildcard (*.uah.edu.) MX if these are generally
> defaulting to the central mail server.
The wildcard won't work -- wildcards only fill in for names that don't
exist. Since this name already exists as a CNAME, the wildcard MX will
not apply to it.
Another solution is to add the MX record to the name that the CNAME
translates to.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA
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