On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christopher L Merrill wrote: > For the MX record it says "ERROR: I couldn't find any MX records for > christophermerrill.net...<snip>....so I'm assuming you don't receive > mail on this domain." > > My DNS is through dyndns.org and I've been receiving mail just fine for > many years. I'm not claiming the report is wrong, or even that I > understand half of what the report said, but it seems to be a little to > strict in its interpretation of this particular item. C
Certainly, MX records are only required if you wish to specify an alternate mail exchanger. If you are happy with using the default A record for mail, everything will function fine. It's fine for something small like your dyndns-based home server. Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
