Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!paul From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <1991Mar22.054054.7224@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Mar 91 05:40:54 GMT References: <1991Mar21.201653.2820@athena.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19 jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: > An MX record contains a preference and a name. The name is the name of a >host to which mail should be sent; that host must have an address record >registered. The preference is a number; the higher the number, the more the >mailer is encouraged to use that MX record. This way, a host can have >multiple MX records, some serving as backup, and the ones with the higher >preference will get tried first. This is actually reversed. An MX value of 10 is preferred over a value of 50. The value of 0 is typically used for the host itself. Otherwise a very good explanation. /pbp -- Paul Pomes UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!paul Internet, BITNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2910