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Question on MX records

Postby bluemike » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:39 pm

I had my ISP create an MX record on their end so all email sent to user@mydomain.com comes to one of my public IP's. My question is, do I still need to create an MX record on my internal DNS server as well?

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Postby leigh » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:04 pm

You don't really give enough information to answer the question categorically. The short answer should be "No.".
Is your internal DNS just a caching nameserver? If so, it will read the MX record from upstream and all will be OK.
If your doing anything tricky, like DNS masquerading or similar, then all bets are off.
Have a look at http://www.dnsreport.com to chexk it out. Plug in your domain name and it will tell you if all is well or not.

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Postby bluemike » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:36 am

Everything under the MX section was either OK or INFO. So I guess I'm okay....

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Postby leigh » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:43 pm

More to the point, if you're receiving email, I'd say you're OK.


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