From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 13:24:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00386 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 13:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00353 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 13:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28126; Fri, 8 May 1998 13:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:24:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many hops In-Reply-To: <199805070214.VAA09367@epcot.spdc.ti.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, George Vagner wrote: > where do i find my "mx records" and what do they do? MX are Mail Exchanger records and are stored in the DNS. The easiest way to see them is to do host hostname The xxx.com mail is handled by ... line is the translation of an MX. Make sure they don't point in loops and you should be okay. > I need to fix this, my provider just notified me of it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message