From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 09:20:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08981 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:20:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wilkshire.net (root@wilkshire.net [207.206.44.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08974 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@wilkshire.net) Received: from graphic.wilkshire.net ([207.206.44.17]) by wilkshire.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA12524 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:19:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Jeff Hartman" To: Subject: MX record Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:18:34 -0500 Message-ID: <01bd2cd9$edab6500$112ccecf@graphic.wilkshire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" i am experimenting with a copy of freebsd. i have a machine called techcenter.wilkshire.com i want to have an MX record to resolve email as the following: jeff@wilkshire.com wilkshire.com will be the same machine as techcenter.wilkshire.com i tried using the following to resolve email for wilkshire.com: wilkshire.com. A 207.206.44.5 www IN CNAME wilkshire.com. IN MX 5 wilkshire.com. this did not work, i get a system error from host saying: SYSERR(host): wilkshire.com. config error : mail loops back to me (MX PROBLEM?) any ideas? thanks jeff