Mike Marion said:
> Quoting Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> DNS docs keep using the term "mail exchanger" to describe
>> what MX records map domains to.
>>
>> IS A MAIL EXCHANGER THE SAME THING AS A MAIL SERVER??
>> (e.g. my little Postfix PC?!?)
>
> Yep.. the whole point to mx records is that you can list the servers
> to handle
> mail for your whole domain. So even if someone sends mail to a
> specific
> hostname in your domain (say www.your.domain) MTA's (that follow the
> rfc's
> anyway) will read the dns records and deliver to the mx records
> instead. You
> can also rank the mx records so that you have primary and backup
> servers,
> primarys are always tried first going down the list.
I didn't think the order mattered as much as the priority.
As an aside, since this discussion has been about two things, MX
records and CNAME records. AFAIK MX records should never contain
pointers to CNAME records. I believe it's in one of the RFCs.
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