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#1 kambui

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Posted 02 July 2007 - 03:21 AM

Can any one supply kind of guide on these two ....I know CNAME and A record but this two are new to me and i need a good concept on this two in my workplace.I did exchange server during my MCSE boot camp but my company uses Mercury32 for local mail and qmail on the internet side, it uses some kind of fetch mail which is new to me .....any explanation is welcomed. :wacko:

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Kambui

This post has been edited by kambui: 02 July 2007 - 03:22 AM

#2 jcarle

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Posted 02 July 2007 - 03:37 AM

MX stands for Mail Exchanger and lists mail servers available for a domain.

NS stands for Name Server and is needed for domain name resolution.

You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_s..._of_DNS_records