This one I'm not sure I believe. It seems to me that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is intended to be mailbox-name @ host, not "@ domain". I have aways understood that using somplace.com is simply a convient shortcut, but that properly you are trying to specify a mailbox name at a host location. Perhaps this is one of those usages that has evolved over the years?
Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Bilbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 3:32 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't > > > > 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. And the record that has 'no name' > > is a "root" host, but it's still a host, and not a subdomain. > > But when mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is assumed to be a > domain not a host, MX records belong to a domain and point to a host. What > follows the @ is a domain so a sub domain needs to be setup for reliable > mail delivery. > > > 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. So I expected that DNS Report would look through > > all the records in this zone, looking for any MX records, and identifying > > those as mail servers; instead, it only looked for a "root" host mail > > server. It's kind of like assuming that a web site name must start with a > > "www."; that's the common usage, but it is not required. > > See my above comment. When using http://www.salemradiology.com you are > correct it is a host what comes after the http:// is assumed to be a host > not a domain a domain can not respond to a http request but a host can. > > > > > If I'm wrong in this understand, I'd love to hear it. And thanks > > for all of > > the replies; all let our clients know that the best way to fix this is to > > simply add that root MX record. > > Yes create a root record and add the mx. > > > > > > Ben > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "IMail Admin" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:07 PM > > Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't > > > > > > > > Why doesn't it see this mx record? > > > > > > It's a restriction of DNS Report, which only works on standalone > > > zones, not hosts within those zones. The records are accessible via > > > dig, et al. > > > > > > > > http://us.mirror.menandmice.com/cgi-bin/DoDig?host=4.2.2.1&domain= > mail.salemradiology.com&type=MX&recur=on > > > > --Sandy > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! > > > http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release > / > > > > Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail > Aliases! > > > http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa > d/release/ > > > http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/re > lease/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
