mail / mailx question

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 7/7/2011 10:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> What is the MX record for whatever.edu?
>
> host -t mx whatever.edu
>
[paul at yoyo ~]$ host -t mx cs.cmu.edu
cs.cmu.edu mail is handled by 10 MX-LB-02.SRV.cs.cmu.edu
cs.cmu.edu mail is handled by 10 MX-LB-03.SRV.cs.cmu.edu
cs.cmu.edu mail is handled by 10 MX-LB-01.SRV.cs.cmu.edu

ping works with:
[paul at yoyo ~]$ ping cs.cmu.edu
PING cs.cmu.edu (128.2.217.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from web-lb.srv.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.217.13): icmp_req=1 ttl=250 
time=86.5 ms
[... and so on ...]

Does that provide the necessary info?,
Paul