From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 29 23:44:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09989 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA09982 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id BAA11443; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 01:45:47 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma011435; Wed Apr 30 01:45:37 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970430014623.00b4e3a0@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 01:46:24 -0500 To: Dan Busarow From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: MX records Cc: "Stephen A. Derdau" , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:51 PM 4/29/97 -0700, Dan Busarow wrote: >In the /etc/namedb/db.domain zone file for this domain, add/change >the MX records > >domain.com. IN A your.ip.address.for.the.website > IN MX 10 the.fqdn.they.gave.you. > IN MX 20 the.other.fqdn.they.gave.you. > >repeat for www.domain.com This is one you may wish to think about, as a lot of junk mail is sent to www. and is another reason why I block port 25 to all web servers. >NB. the dots at the end of domain.com. and the domains on the >MX lines are important. Make sure you include them. Awww, but it make DNS so "interesting" without them. >And make sure you increase the serial number in the SOA record. > >Also, take Josef's advice and get DNS and BIND. If you are >taking over DNS you'll need it, very well written (like all >ORA books). I'll 3rd the first and 2nd the second. 8-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990