I NEED help with MX Records...Please

LonC25 · Feb 24, 2003

First of all, I am confused about the MX records.

I have a small network with exchange server called Huron2

Here is the zone record

huronenviro.com. IN MX 10 huron2.huronenviro.com.

http://www.huronenviro.com.

IN MX 20 huron2.huronenviro.com.
huron2.huronenviro.com. IN A 192.168.1.250

I tried to have mail.huronenviro.com as the A record, but that didn't work.

Also, should the A record point to the internal IP address?

Please help me with this one

Morsing · Feb 24, 2003

If you want Internet mail server then it should point to the external address.

Instead of an A record for mail, use a CNAME and keep the huron2 A record:

mail IN CNAME huron2

Cheers
Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

ChrisAC · Mar 1, 2003

Why do you have an MX record for

http://www.huronenviro.com?

Your record should look something like:

huronenviro.com. IN MX mail
mail IN A <mail server IP address>
www IN A <web server IP address>

Chris.
**********************
Chris Andrew, CCNA, CCSA
chris@iproute.co.uk
**********************

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I NEED help with MX Records...Please

LonC25

IS-IT--Management

Morsing

Technical User

ChrisAC

ISP

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