See Comments below
: It's a nameserver record that points to the mail exchanger for a given
: domain. RFC 974 (see
: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#more-information) has the
: details.
Thank you for the RFC link.
: Non-authoritative answer:
: speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger =
mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com
: speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger =
mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com
:
: Authoritative answers can be found from:
: speedchoice.com nameserver = ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com
: speedchoice.com nameserver = ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com
: mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.31
: mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.30.31
: ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 207.238.183.71
: ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.3
: >
:
: This says that a message addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be
: sent to either mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com or
: mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com. Since they both have the same preference
: (10), either can be used.
: Your system could be configured as an SMTP server, but if it has an MX
: record pointing elsewhere, no remote systems will ever try to send it
: mail, it'll go to the host identified in the MX record.
In light of what you said and the reading that I just did, please verify the
following is true. Unless my ISP (speedchoice.com) changes _thier_ MX
tables, I cannot do this. If I wanted to this thier MX tables would somehow
(??) have to change. This brings me to DNS, and if I wanted to run a DNS
server, then I should be able to do it? Sorry if I sound really wacked, I
am trying to not jsut configure this, but to really understand it too.
Thanks so much.
Steven
:
: -Dave
:
