Does a mailserver always look at the MX record, and not the A record for a domain?
Back a few years, I know we had a problem related to mail going to the webserver
instead the mailserver, when the domain was set up with an A record that was different
than the IP address of the hostname pointed to by MX. Does this still count, or is
this a solved issue?
ex. zone config where a http request will go to test.com/192.168.1.1 and mail to
test.com will go to mail.test.com/10.10.10.10
; Zone file for: test.com
@ IN SOA ns.domain.com. hostmaster.domain.com. (
1999112214 ; serial number
28800 ; refresh
7200 ; retry
604800 ; expire
86400 ) ; minimum TTL
; NS records
@ IN NS ns.domain.com.
@ IN NS ns1.domain.com.
@ IN NS nn.domain.net.
; MX records
@ IN MX 10 mail.test.com.
@ IN MX 20 mail1.domain.com.
; Zone records
@ IN A 192.168.1.1
mail IN A 10.10.10.10
www IN CNAME www.domain.com.
BTW: test.com and domain.com in this example has nothing to do with the real domains
out there.
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