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- From: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: Questions about DNS
- Message-ID: <k2.716541754@woodstock>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 07:22:34 GMT
- References: <92258.184040IDSAK@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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- IDSAK@ASUACAD.BITNET (Shahjehan Khatri) writes:
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- >We have several subdomains under ASU.EDU, but now would also like
- >to be able to send mail to username@ASU.EDU.
-
- >Presently, the person in charge has added 2 aliases to
- >ASUDNS1.INRE.ASU.EDU:
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- > ASU.EDU 129.219.13.80
- > POST.INRE.ASU.EDU 129.219.13.80
-
- >He has set the "org" codes or somesuch so that this seems to be
- >working. I'd like to know whether it would be better to set up
- >ASU.EDU as an MX record instead.
-
- >Do you see any holes in any of this?
-
- I've just tried to resolve asu.edu :
-
- Using domain server:
- Name: ASUVAX.EAS.ASU.EDU
- Address: 129.219.30.5
- Aliases:
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- asu.edu NS ASUVAX.EAS.ASU.EDU
- asu.edu NS CCNUCB.COLORADO.EDU
-
- As you could see, the A recourd isn't there.
-
- You don't need a A record to do what you want, you only need a MX record.
- An A record could be an last resort for those Mail systems, which could not
- use MX-records, but is not needed.
-
- Sincerely,
- Klaus Steinberger
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