[Gllug] Hosting my own domain(s)

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:30:19AM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:46 +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> 
>> That should be RFC 2142, of course.
> 
> To my knowledge there's no RFC mandating the presence of MX records for
> a domain.  If there are no MX records then RFC2142 is moot.
> 
> Happy to be proved wrong, of couse :)

True, it does not require MX records for a domain in some 
circumstances, eg a domain without any services running.

But if you run certain services then it does describe the email 
addresses that should be used for problems with that service - 
hostmaster for DNS, webmaster for web servers, etc.

As the original poster wanted to host DNS themselves, then they 
will need a hostmaster address for the SOA record in DNS. This 
could be in a different domain, but in this situation that would 
be unlikely. For email delivery to a domain you either use MX 
records, or fall back on A records (not a good idea).


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