On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, at 1:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (Gee, wouldn't it be handy if there were a lookup table like DNS for all
> services? "If DNS has an HTTP port assigned, go there, otherwise, port
> 80." Ah, well...)
There actually is such a thing in DNS: SRV (Service) records. But th
You could certainly do it either way you outline, but by far the easiest
would be to simply have the MX record point to their mail server. No
reason not to do it that way -- since it's pretty much the only time that
DNS allows you to separate out a service based on IP, and you might as
well take a
hould work. If the target
system has a valid hostname that one can retrieve by doing a reverse
lookup on the IP address, then use that in the MX record - if not, use any
"A" record name that points to that IP address. CNAMEs should not be used
in MX records.
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Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTEC
I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up
locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server
rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the
MX record in DNS set to point to their exchange server? Or does the MX
record point t
