Hmm, well maybe we should respond the
same way you responded to Michael Leone: RTFM -----Original
Message----- What is DNS? I am a
newbie too! :o) Please thanks for all
your halp... -----Original Message----- Nick, Not
necessarily "no real purpose" many external IE not owned by you. Mail
servers will use your MX record to find the Mail eXchanger for your domain,
this is its purpose. I have found it is ALWAYS better to properly define the
host (A) record for your mail server, and the mail exchanger (MX) correctly
pointing to the host. This is DNS 101 rules IMHO. Chad
Purviance -----Original
Message----- So for
my single server setup it doesn't really serve a purpose? Thanks for the
help. Nick -----Original
Message----- Obviously,
it is a special record that points to your mail server, but what it really represents,
I think, is a route for SMTP traffic. If you have multiple servers
accepting email for an SMTP domain, MX records can be assigned costs with a
relative relationship to assign priorities to certain mail routes. In a
single server environment it may not seem to make much sense to have a separate
DNS resource record to indicate where the Mail Exchange Server is. But
some companies have multiple routes, some companies have email hosted
elsewhere. William -----Original
Message----- Are you
serious? -----Original
Message----- Sorry to
hijack again, but what purpose does the MX record serve. It seems to just
be another level of abstraction between a domain name and its IP. Can
anyone enlighten me please? Nick -----Original
Message----- Moving
the mailboxes and everything off the old server to the new one. I was
just wondering if there was a way to keep the 2 server syncronized durring the
transition. -----Original
Message----- Woohh..... Are you
moving mailboxes to a new server? Or upgrading an existing server? -----Original
Message----- I am
trying to upgrade an NT4.0 Exchange 5.5 sp6 server that is in use full time to
a Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 machine. The
exchange 5.5 server has been used for some 5 years with no problems. The old
server was misconfigured to with a different netbios name from mx record, with
aliases in the user mailboxes. I ran
the exchange server migration wizard and migrated the messages to the new
mailboxes without errors or warnings. What I
have and would like to know... oldserver newserver I would
like to move the mx record and start getting the mail delievered to the new
server...am I going to have problems? Is
there a way to syncronize the 2 servers so that mail is delievered between to 2
servers to the old and new mailboxes? I am
afraid that I might miss some messages durring the mx record changeover and
will need to syncronize them. I am
also worried about the mailbox rules people have defined. List Charter
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