MX question

base60 nobody at whitehouse.com
Tue Aug 22 16:12:03 UTC 2006


Jim wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> I have a customer's dns server (bind - not sure of version) not able to 
> resolve my mx records to one of my zones. Here are my current records:
> 
>  100 mydomain.com.s5a1.psmtp.com.
>  200 mydomain.com.s5a2.psmtp.com.

http://www.dnsreport.com

Type in your domain and review the information regarding MX records.

> 
> I'm being told from the customer that my mx records are formatted 
> improperly. His argument is that his version of bind is unable resolve the 
> mx record when the domain name _does not_ appear at the end of the record 
> (ie s5a1.psmtp.com.mydomain.com would work fine for him).
> 
> Is this is a known problem with some versions of bind?
> Can someone point me to documentation that tells me proper/illegal syntax 
> for my mx records.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim 
> 
> 
> 



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