Overriding MX records to internal gateways

Josh Smith juicewvu at gmail.com
Sat May 3 15:47:54 UTC 2008


Why not just configure your MTA to use your internal gateway(s) as smart hosts?

Thanks,
Josh

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com> wrote:
>
> Pedro Espinoza wrote:
>  > Gurus:
>  >
>  > is it possible with BIND to replace authoritative MX records with
>  > internal gateways, so that the MTA can route the email to internal
>  > gateways? Of course, sendmail/postfix provides a solution to do that.
>  > But I am looking at DNS level, as follows:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>  > ;gmail.com.                     IN      MX
>  >
>  > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>  > gmail.com.              870     IN      MX      10 localrelay1.example.com.
>  > gmail.com.              870     IN      MX      50 localrelay2.example.com
>  >
>  >
>  You'd have to have a "private" version of the whole gmail.com zone.
>
>
>  -Kevin
>
>
>



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