Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:29:54 -0700, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> penned:
>
> If a host is also it's own MX, having the MX is not necissary (if it
> was, I shouldn't have been able to recieve email for the last six
> years). You also should *NOT* be pointing MX entries at random hosts,
> even your ISP. You need to make arrangements with someone running a
> mail server before pointing an MX at them.
>
It's my impression that you don't generally need an MX record if you're
just running your own mail, but if you're also using a backup MX server,
that you need an entry for yourself so that you can specify a lower
priority for your own server than for the backup server ... otherwise,
mail might go to the backup server first.
Is that wrong?
You do need to make arrangements with someone to have them run a backup
MX for you ... one such service provider, with whom I haven't done
business, is dyndns.org ... iirc they charge something like $20 or $30 a
year for backup MX services.
--
monique
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