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Updated by Tiffany Conley on Apr 01, 2021
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DNS Mx Record

A DNS 'mail exchange' (MX) record guides email to a mail laborer. The MX record indicates how email messages should be controlled according to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP, the standard protocol for all emails). Like CNAME records, an MX record ought to always point to another domain.

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What Type Of Information Is Contained In A Dns Mx Record?

What Type Of Information Is Contained In A Dns Mx Record?

An MX (mail exchange) record is a segment in your DNS zone archive which indicates a mail laborer to handle a domain's email. You ought to arrange an MX record to get an email to your domain.

*What is a backup MX record? *

A backup MX record is just an MX record for a male laborer with a more serious 'need value (which means a lower need) so that under normal circumstances mail will go to the more centered around laborers. In the principal example above, mailhost2 would be the 'backup' laborer because email traffic will be handled via mailhost1 as long as it is going.

Can MX records point to a CNAME?

A CNAME record is used for alluding to a domain's alias instead of its actual name. CNAME records typically point to A record (in IPv4) or AAAA record (in IPv6) for that domain. Notwithstanding, MX records have to point straightforwardly to a laborer's A record or AAAA record. Pointing to a CNAME is taboo by the RFC archives that characterize how MX records work.
What sort of information is contained in a DNS MX record?
the FQDN of the alias used to distinguish an assistance
the IP address for an FQDN area
the domain name mapped to mail exchange laborers
the IP address of an authoritative name laborer

Example of an MX record

MX records consist of two parts: the priority and the domain name. For example:
0 mail.EXAMPLE.com
The ‘0’ is the priority.
The lower the number means the higher priority.
The ‘mail.EXAMPLE.com’ is the mail server to which it connects. This is different depending on what company is hosting your email.
Outgoing email servers connect to the MX servers in order of priority.
If you use more than one MX record and both have the same priority, it picks one at random. (This in effect load balances the connections.)

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