From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 25 13:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AC237B417 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id F05A25343; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:18:56 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: blocked mail References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Feb 2002 22:18:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jeremy C. Reed" 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