Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [OT] A question about MX records

2017-02-20 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:25:01PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >If by "alias", you mean a second A record for 84.92.49.234, then the >common practice is to use a hostname of mail.domain.tld Yes, this is what I intended to mean. My question is whether it's necessary to do this so t

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [OT] A question about MX records

2017-02-19 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
If by "alias", you mean a second A record for 84.92.49.234, then the common practice is to use a hostname of mail.domain.tld If by "alias", you mean a CNAME, you should know that listing a CNAME in an MX record violates the RFC. It often works, but some servers check for this and reject all mail

[Dnsmasq-discuss] [OT] A question about MX records

2017-02-19 Thread Chris Green
I'm afraid this is a little off topic for dnsmasq but I don't know where else I could ask. If I have a small server that is both a basic internet host *and* the mail server for that host how does one set up the MX record in the zone file? I.e. I have a server for the domain zbmc.eu and 'host zbmc