They prevent people who start a potentially rogue mailserver to receive mails. 
I.e. You centralize mails and make sure only your authorized mailserver 
receives them when you dont have full control over these boxes.

-mat

On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Sten Carlsen <st...@s-carlsen.dk> wrote:

> To me it looks redundant, "named-compilezone -o - zone file" should show you 
> how bind interprets these.
> My guess is that they will be listed only once in the output.
> 
> I don't see how they could belong to each subdomain, to do that there should 
> be a"@..." to set a new origin?
> 
> 
> 
> On 28/10/10 2:14, Ian Manners wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gregory,
>> 
>>> mail02          IN      A       192.168.xx.xx
>>>             IN      MX      10      mcvpemr01       
>>>             IN      MX      10      mcvpemr02
>>> nelson          IN  A       202.xx.xx.1
>>>             IN      MX      10      mcvpemr01
>>>             IN      MX      10      mcvpemr02
>> 
>>> My question is why would "IN    MX    10    mcvpemr01" and "IN    MX
>>> 10    mcvpemr02" be repeated trough the zone file surely this is
>>> redundant ?
>> It looks like an old way of specifying the MX for each subdomain.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Ian Manners
>> http://www.os2site.com/
>> 
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> 
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> 
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