[TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill

[Ben Pitzer]

Carl,

Actually, the MX records are only for incoming email, not POP or IMAP
servers.  They're only valid in context of other domains sending email to
your domain.  They are ordered via numbers:

@		IN MX 10 mail1.foo.com
@		IN MX 20 mail2.foo.com

These records show that the lower number (mail1.foo.com) is the primary MX
server, and all mail servers will try to deliver mail for this domain to
that server first.  If that fails, they will try to deliver to
mail2.foo.com.  Make sense?


Regards,
Ben Pitzer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Carl Lindner
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Cc: Jon Carnes
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill
>
>
> Actually, if you guys don't mind me jumping into this thread.  I'm
> curious that if you do have multiple MX records for email defined....
> how exactly do you go about synchronizing them without the user having
> to pop/imap to multiple machines to retrieve their email from secondary
> backup servers?
>
> thanks
> carl
>
> Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> > On 27 Jan 2004, Jon Carnes wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I knew that someone was going to post this, and I have to respectfully
> >>respond: [bleep]
> >
> >
> > Come on now, Jon, we have invited kids here.  Keep it clean.
> >
> >
> >>On a /29 network there is little if any need for a remote secondary
> >>DNS.
> >
> >
> > So how do you expect mail to get sent to your backup MX?
> >
> > --Magnus
> >
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