DNS is driving me crazy

[Herouth Maoz]

On 10/03/2009, at 21:33, Oren Held wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:50:18 Herouth Maoz wrote:
>> Quoting Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>:
>>> www	3600	IN	CNAME	s5.hostlocal.com
>>> szabgab.com	3600	IN	CNAME	s5.hostlocal.com
>>>
>>> @	3600	IN	MX	10	s6.hostlocal.com.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is that how it should be? With the trailing . on the MS record ?
>>>
>>> dig   @ns44.domaincontrol.com szabgab.com MX
>>>
>>> does not seem to show me any MX record
>>
>> Well, I'm not exactly an expert, but your MX record certainly isn't
>> propagated - I think the above definition must be wrong. Why does it
>> say "@" where it's supposed to say mail.szabgab.com?
>
> Wrong, instead of the "@" should be szabgab.com and not  
> mail.szabgab.com -
> because he wants user at szabgab.com mail addresses.

Ah, right, I guess. The following confused me:

> I'd like to have www.szabgab.com and szabgab.com to resolve to
> s5.hostlocal.com while
> mail.szabgab.com to resolve to  s6.hostlocal.com and that all mail  
> sent to
> @szabgab.com should be processed by   s6.hostlocal.com

So actually there is no need to define mail.szabgab.com at all -  
unless he wants to make it a cname for some protocol other than SMTP.

Herouth
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