MX record
MKlinke
mklinke at axsi.com
Fri Mar 19 15:00:32 UTC 2004
On Friday 19 March 2004 13:31, geeta at cdfd.org.in wrote:
>
> Now my qn is can the email server be given the private IP or should
> it also have public IP natted to private IP
>
> present entry in named.hosts
>
> IN MX 100 www.cdfd.org.in.
> cdfd.org.in In A 210.212.212.3
>
> Now I want to change to
>
> IN MX 100 mail.cdfd.org.in
> mail.cdfd.org.in IN A ?
>
> ? --> can be a private IP or not
>
>
Think about it for a minute. If you plugged a private address into
your public DNS MX record and some other mail server tried to use it,
what would happen if that other mail server had a connection to its
own private network that contained the same private address?
Regards, Mike Klinke
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