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Subject: DNS MX records?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: kurt@pinboard.com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 19:05:42 JST
Message-ID: <8284-264437101@pinboard.com>
Organization: PINBOARD - it's where you go for e-mail
Lines: 36
I've either got a problem or I'm misunderstanding something.
My FreeBSD machine is set up as a primary name server. However, mail
needs to go to another machine. My hosts file for converting domains
to IP addresses looks like:
....
SOA
....
IN NS mymachine.my.net.work.
IN MX mail.ser.ver.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
mymachine IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
IN MX 10 mail.ser.ver.
alias IN CNAME mymachine.my.net.work.
...
An nslookup tells me that the mail exchanger for both
mymachine.my.net.work and my.net.work is mail.ser.ver, and if I send
mail to myself@my.net.work, it correctly goes to mail.ser.ver. However,
if I send mail to myself@mymachine.my.net.work, then it does not go to
mail.ser.ver, but is put in my mailbox at mymachine.my.net.work. Can
anybody tell me what I missed or misunderstood or mixed up? I need mail
to @my.net.work AND @mymachine.my.net.work to be delivered to
mail.ser.ver.
Thanks,
Kurt
... Kurt@pinboard.com / 28 Feb 96 13:30:26 (JST)