[afnog] mx records

[Brian Candler]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:20:28PM +0300, asseym at smartvisions.net wrote:
> 4. I realized that i can't create an mx record pointing their mail to
> their server with only the ip address that they gave me. Hence i need a
> name of the host eg mail.domain.com (unless of course iam imagining
> things)
> 
> 5. I decided to create a subdomain of their domain ie mail.royalsuites.co.ug.
> 
> 6. I was hoping that i would point this new subdomain to the ip address
> the client gave me, then use mail.royalsuites.co.ug to create the much
> needed mx record.
> 
> My question is, will this strategy work or is their a simpler way of doing
> things??

That's the correct way of doing it. If their machine already has a name in
the DNS (even an unrelated one) you can use that as the target of the MX
record, otherwise you have to create a name specifically for that purpose.

Regards,

Brian.