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Re: [cobalt-users] Custom MX record
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Custom MX record
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Sep 26 07:57:06 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, William Lamb wrote:
> I have to set up a MX record that points to a exchange server. The issue
> is that I can not use a domain name, I must use an IP address. So I can
> only conceive two options in this matter.
>
> A: edit etc/named/pri.domain.com and edit the record: domain.com IN MX
> 30 111.222.333.444
>
> B: go thru the GUI and make a MX (domain.com points to mail.domian.com)
> and make an A record mail.domain.com IN A 111.222.333.444
>
> Is either one of these going to work or do I have another option?
The latter method should work.
Since you probably do not maintain the records for the exchange server
on the RaQ, you would not make an 'A' record for that server.
Gerald
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