[windows2000] Re: MX records question
- From: "Ray Costanzo" <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:44:47 -0500
If this what happens, this would be rather ideal for my needs. Thanks Jon!
I'm off to do some testing.
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Spriggs
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:27 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: MX records question
If I remember rightly, MX records have a priority, so it'll try priority 1
server first (1.2.3.4), then if it can't reach that, it'll try priority 2
(5.6.7.8 <http://5.6.7.8> ) and so on. I think the highest priority is 100,
but different BIND/DNS servers will have more or less available records,
depending on how complex they expect their users to be!
It's usually used as follows:
Priority 1) Local Office SMTP Server
Priority 2) Main Branch SMTP Store-and-forward
Priority 3) ISP SMTP Store-and-forward
This then means that the default is for it to arrive at your branch office.
If for some reason, the downstream mail service can't see your office (you
have no power, your mail server coughs or there's just too many connections
for your local server to cope with), then it'll try your main branch server.
If that's down (same reasons), it'll try the ISP.
Rgds,
Jon
On 1/10/08, Ray Costanzo <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oops. And that second mx record sends mail to 5.6.7.8, or some other
destination different from the first record, that is.
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Costanzo
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:35 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] MX records question
So, here's my question. Let's say I own a domain, raysdomain.com, and I
have an mx record published that sends mail to 1.2.3.4. What happens if I
publish a second mx record? I notice in my host's dns admin control panel,
I can have more than one mx record. I don't want to try it out to see.
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