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2005-12-06

HowNotToDoDNSIV

How not to set up your DNS (part 4)

Presented in the traditional illustrated form:

; dig +short mx mail2world.com.
10 publicms2.mail2world.com.
10 publicms1.mail2world.com.
; dig +short a publicms1.mail2world.com.
216.163.188.54
; dig +short a publicms2.mail2world.com.
216.163.188.54

That's an, uh, interesting way to do redundant MXes. Or, in their case, redundant MX records.

HowNotToDoDNSIV written at 15:08:36; Add Comment

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