An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

Sat Apr 5 00:13:11 UTC 2003

At the risk of drifting off topic and draging this on more than I should:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
> There is one other situation where you need an MX record.  If your domain
> is foo.com and the A record for foo.com is _NOT_ the machine that accepts
> mail for foo.com, you need an MX record pointing to the correct machine.
> Often this will be mail.foo.com or smtp.foo.com.
>
> Owen

Yes,
a very common example of this would be people who use
foo.com as the website address and that machine is not capable
of accepting mail.

I will not comment on this practice, because I might be flamed to a crisp
and I left my asbestos underpants at home. :)

>
>
> --On Friday, April 4, 2003 10:13 AM +0800 Indra PRAMANA
> <indra at indra.webvis.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > At 03:58 PM 4/3/2003 -0600, Gerardo Gregory wrote:
> >> Since then I have learned that some MTA's will look for an A record if
> >> it  cannot find an MX record and use the A record instead.
> >
> > This is always the case. MX records are only required if you want to have
> > more than one mail exchange servers to serve your domain, e.g. if you
> > want to have a secondary mail server as a relay if the primary server
> > goes down.
> >
> > If you only have one mail exchange server to serve your domain, you don't
> > need MX records. An A record pointing to your mail server is sufficient.
> >
> > -ip-
> >
>
>
>
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