[TriLUG] Securing Recursive DNS

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christopher L Merrill wrote:

> For the MX record it says "ERROR: I couldn't find any MX records for
> christophermerrill.net...<snip>....so I'm assuming you don't receive
> mail on this domain."
> 
> My DNS is through dyndns.org and I've been receiving mail just fine for
> many years.  I'm not claiming the report is wrong, or even that I
> understand half of what the report said, but it seems to be a little to
> strict in its interpretation of this particular item. C

Certainly, MX records are only required if you wish to specify an 
alternate mail exchanger.  If you are happy with using the default A 
record for mail, everything will function fine.  It's fine for something 
small like your dyndns-based home server.

Jeremy

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