Alasdair Campbell wrote:
> Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>> "Alasdair Campbell" <news@alasdaircampbell.com> wrote in message
>> news:5qg2auFvqrjsU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>> My domains all have CNAME aliases for 'www' pointing to my dynamic ip
>>> (dyndns hostname). I have no A records as I have no static IP to point
>>> them to.
>>>
>>> Will this cause problems in the long run with MTAs?
>>
>> It shouldn't. But the A record is a red herring. An MTA will look for
>> an MX (mail exchanger) record first. It points to a hostname that will
>> accept mail to that domain, and while the host should know about mail
>> to your domain, its name may be in another domain.
>>
>> A domain may have several MXs, with all the opportunities and problems
>> that implies.
>>
>> Groetjes,
>> Maarten Wiltink
>>
>>
>
> Hi Maartan,
>
> My situation is I have my MX records pointing to the google apps email
> service. Are you saying that because I see mention of an A record, the
> MTA is not yet seeing the MX records?
>
> On this domain the TTS is 0, so I presume most NS have had chance to
> pick up the changes.
Well maybe not, I just ran this MX record checker
http://www.mob.net/~ted/tools/mx.php3
and none of the NS have any MX records for my domain ginezbukov.com
I know I should just wait, but I'm worried that I need to fix something
before this will work out.