Re: in the MX record??

2003-08-20 Thread bscott
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, at 1:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Gee, wouldn't it be handy if there were a lookup table like DNS for all services? If DNS has an HTTP port assigned, go there, otherwise, port 80. Ah, well...) There actually is such a thing in DNS: SRV (Service) records. But they

in the MX record??

2003-08-19 Thread Jason Kern
I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the MX record in DNS set to point to their exchange server? Or does the MX record point

Re: in the MX record??

2003-08-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jason Kern wrote: I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the MX record in DNS set to point

Re: in the MX record??

2003-08-19 Thread ken
You could certainly do it either way you outline, but by far the easiest would be to simply have the MX record point to their mail server. No reason not to do it that way -- since it's pretty much the only time that DNS allows you to separate out a service based on IP, and you might as well take