[SunHELP] Re: [SunRescue] MX records in BIND

[Dan Lane]

AFAIK you just add some lines in your zone file
(eg: named.blah.com)... here is a very basic one from my DNS server:

@       IN      SOA     ns1.x11.net.    hostmaster.x11.net. (
                                        2001012305      ; serial
                                        28800           ; Refresh
                                        7200            ; Retry
                                        604800          ; Expire
                                        86400 )         ; Minimum TTL

                        NS      ns1.x11.net.
                        NS      ns2.x11.net.

                        MX      10 mail-relay.x11.net.

www                     IN      A       195.7.228.59


the relevent line is 
                        MX      10 mail-relay.x11.net.

you can have multiple MX records, the higher the number the lower the
priority.. eg

                        MX      10 mail-relay01.x11.net.
                        MX      20 mail-relay02.x11.net.
                        MX      30 backup-relay.isp.com.

will cause the mail to go to 'mail-relay01.x11.net', however if
'mail-relay01.x11.net' is unavailable or not accepting mail it will go to
'mail-relay02.x11.net' and failing that 'backup-relay.isp.com'.


Regards,
Dan - who could very well be wrong!.. and is the sort of person who
forgets the 'dot' at the end of the line regularly :P




Paul Khoury sent the following on Mon, 29 Jan 2001...

> Thanks to all who helped me with my past BIND problems, the server
> works perfectly, and I just switched two domains I own over to it today.
> 
> What I'd like to do now is learn about getting MX records implimented, but I'm not sure where
> to place them, as in which file(s).  I'd need them for different domains.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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