MX Records (Mail Exchange) are DNS records that are used to route email to email servers. You can have numerous MX Records posting to different email servers to prevent loss of email due to downtime. Email is sent to servers pointed to in MX records based on Priority which states that the lowest the Priority number the higher the priority of the server. Emails will be routed to MX records of 0 first.
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DNS Registrar – What is…
A DNS Registrar is authorized by ICANN to sell domain names. They essentially do the admin work required for the Domain Name System. Registrars have become important because they are private companies and they have […]
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A Records in DNS – What are…
< A Records in DNS point Subdomains to IP Addresses. So MAIL.domain.com points to 10.1.10.100, and VPN.domain.com points to 10.1.10.101. Generally an A Record is created for @ that points to your web server. Then […]
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Subdomains in DNS – What are…
Subdomains are prefixes to domain names that allow administrators to provide different web services to users, but do so using the same namespace so that it is easier to remember. Such as MAIL.failednormal.com, WWW.failednormal.com, VPN.failednormal.com… […]
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