Loading MX record with illegal preference (Lame subject replaced: clarification

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Oct 22 12:39:29 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:01:22PM +0530,
 rams <bramesh80 at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 42 lines which said:

> I have a record in BIND as follows:
> 
> mxdomain.com. 86400 IN MX 65536 gmail.com.

I don't think you tell us the truth. Because BIND refuses to load it:

% named-checkzone example large-mx.zone 
dns_rdata_fromtext: large-mx.zone:15: near '65536': out of range
zone example/IN: loading from master file large-mx.zone failed: out of range
zone example/IN: not loaded due to errors.



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