SUMMARY: DNS MX problems

From: Darryl Wagoner-MIS Manager (darryl@dax.sai.com)
Date: Wed Nov 30 1994 - 09:31:50 CST


Greetings,

So far I have gotten 2 correct answer and I few telling me I need
to use sendmail.mx. Which I think is because I didn't make myself
clear enough, sorry!

Thanks to all who responded!

-darryl

The first was from bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de (Jochen Bern)

Do I understand correctly that you want all Mail going into sai.com to
be delivered on one central Server? If yes, then you need a Wildcard
in sai.com's MX Record, like in

sai.com. IN MX 100 mailhost.sai.com.
   : : : :
*.sai.com. IN MX 100 mailhost.sai.com.

The second was from Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@ca.cch.com>

   what you probably need is a wildcard MX record that will allow resolution
   for all mail in the domain, something like:

        * IN MX 10 lemuria.sai.com

   Of course lemuria would have to be reachable.... hmmm looks like it is
   a ping responds. Yeah, so all you really need is the wildcard MX record
   which will cause all mail for hosts in your domain to be delivered to
   the host specified by the wildcard.

   Keep in mind that the wildcard only takes effect if there is no explictily
   specified MX record for a host.

   Hope this helps.

-darryl



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