Date: 25 Feb 2002 22:18:56 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: blocked mail Message-ID: <xzplmdhmf9b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0202251158460.25937-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0202251158460.25937-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes: > An MX record basically tells the sending mail server what remote mail > server handles the email for a host. For example, aaa.foo's email may be > handled by supermailcompany.bar -- so the DNS would indicate that with an > MX record. An impressive feat of obscurantism :) You could simply say that an MX record specifies the Mail eXchanger for a domain (what we call hosts and domains are both called domains in DNS parlance) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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