Loading MX record with illegal preference (Lame subject replaced: clarification

2010-10-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:01:22PM +0530, rams brames...@gmail.com wrote a message of 42 lines which said: I have a record in BIND as follows: mxdomain.com. 86400 IN MX 65536 gmail.com. I don't think you tell us the truth. Because BIND refuses to load it: % named-checkzone example

Re: Loading MX record with illegal preference (Lame subject replaced: clarification

2010-10-22 Thread John Wingenbach
https://www.isc.org/files/arm96.html#types_of_resource_records_and_when_to_use_them Scroll down to the data type MX and it says: Identifies a mail exchange for the domain with a 16-bit preference value (lower is better) followed by the host name of the mail exchange. Described in RFC 974,

Re: Loading MX record with illegal preference (Lame subject replaced: clarification

2010-10-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:02:49AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed jr...@isc.org wrote a message of 8 lines which said: Because subject was replaced I didn't find it before my response :) You should really used a threaded mail client software (which understands the In-Reply-To: header) :-)