Alan, An A record is used for Hosts, such as www, or any other entry you may see before the domain.com.
MX Records are mail exchange records. They tell other servers where your email for that particular domain.com goes to. Multiple MX records would send mail to the Highest Preference (lowest number) first and if not available it would try the second (if you have a second) and third and so forth. HTH Jeff Reinhardt XFire Software & XFire Web ________________________ http://www.xfireweb.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Shepro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Imail Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:46 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] DNS Question - OT I have a DNS related question. What is the difference between an A record and an MX record on a DNS server? ~alan Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses - XFire Web] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses - XFire Web] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
