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RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4: Using an IP address in an MX Record
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4: Using an IP address in an MX Record
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Apr 19 08:32:40 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> I'm trying to configure the "Mail Server Name" under:
> Control Panel -> DNS -> Parameters -> mydomain.co.uk -> Modify
> Mail Server (MX)
> Record
> to use an IP address of a computer on a different network (a
> Lotus Notes server
> to be precise), but it will only accept a fully qualified domain name.
>
> Is there any way around this? - There is nothing in the
> knowledgebase that would
> suggest so.
>
Get the other network to make a DNS record for that IP such as
mail.domain.com and set that up as the MX record.
IIRC, on a recent thread the idea was to create an A record on your DNS
mail.yourdomain.com --> other IP address and point to that.
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Dan Kriwitsky
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