[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 381/727] Updated the MX resource record description.
Jaromir Hradilek
jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:56:45 UTC 2010
commit 4ec6071b8e5e3a2eebe59e98009acfc9f38f0f03
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 15:10:45 2010 +0200
Updated the MX resource record description.
en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml b/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
index 1b9fb85..efe620a 100644
--- a/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
@@ -1171,21 +1171,21 @@ www IN CNAME server1</screen>
<term><command>MX</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- This refers to the Mail eXchange record, which tells where mail sent to a particular namespace controlled by this zone should go.
+ The <firstterm>Mail eXchange</firstterm> record specifies where the mail sent to a particular namespace controlled by this zone should go. It takes the following form:
</para>
- <screen>IN MX <replaceable><preference-value></replaceable>
- <replaceable><email-server-name></replaceable></screen>
+ <screen>IN MX <replaceable>preference-value</replaceable> <replaceable>email-server-name</replaceable></screen>
<para>
- <!-- RHEL5: In this example, -->Here, the <replaceable><preference-value></replaceable> allows numerical ranking of the email servers for a namespace, giving preference to some email systems over others. The <command>MX</command> resource record with the lowest <replaceable><preference-value></replaceable> is preferred over the others. However, multiple email servers can possess the same value to distribute email traffic evenly among them.
+ The <replaceable>email-server-name</replaceable> is fully qualified domain name (FQDN). The <replaceable>preference-value</replaceable> allows numerical ranking of the email servers for a namespace, giving preference to some email systems over others. The <command>MX</command> resource record with the lowest <replaceable>preference-value</replaceable> is preferred over the others. However, multiple email servers can possess the same value to distribute email traffic evenly among them.
</para>
<para>
- The <replaceable><email-server-name></replaceable> is FQDN.
- </para>
- <screen>example.com. IN MX 10 mail.example.com.
- IN MX 20 mail2.example.com.</screen>
- <para>
- In this example, the first <command>mail.example.com</command> email server is preferred to the <command>mail2.example.com</command> email server when receiving email destined for the <command>example.com</command> domain.
+ In <xref linkend="example-bind-zone-rr-mx" />, the first <systemitem class="domainname">mail.example.com</systemitem> email server is preferred to the <systemitem class="domainname">mail2.example.com</systemitem> email server when receiving email destined for the <systemitem class="domainname">example.com</systemitem> domain.
+
</para>
+ <example id="example-bind-zone-rr-mx">
+ <title>Using the <command>MX</command> resource record</title>
+ <screen>example.com. IN MX 10 mail.example.com.
+ IN MX 20 mail2.example.com.</screen>
+ </example>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
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