I am not (not even close to being) a DNS expert, but some of the other
replies posted do not fit with my understanding of the DNS setup.  The host
"mail" is not a subdomain, it's a host.

In DNS, EVERYTHING is a domain (including in the reverse domain).

  And the record that has 'no name'
is a "root" host, but it's still a host, and not a subdomain.

sub-domain is a domain under a parent domain. Except for parent-less root domain ".", all domains are sub-domains.

  There is only
one domain/zone, and that's salemradiology.com.  The rest are records for
hosts within that domain.  At leat, I always considered hosts and subdomains
to be different animals.

In DNS, EVERYTHING is a domain, whether the domain node contains records, or not.

So I expected that DNS Report would look through all the records in this zone

There's no DNS query to return all the records in zone (zone transfer is a special query that should be restricted). iow, no "fishing expeditions" for all records in a zone.

The "any" query type applies to records owned by a single domain, so it won't return any sub-domains of the queried domain.

looking for any MX records, and identifying
those as mail servers; instead, it only looked for a "root" host mail
server.

When you ask a DNS domain analyzer to analyze a domain, it will assume the domain is delegated zone, and work only on that zone, not on sub-domains of the zone (since it has no way to discover what the sub-domains are).

Len

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