RE: [OT] recomended DNS services?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is UKReg's tech support words:

I am afraid that we don't support more that one MX record, this can be done
through a third party such as zoneedit.com.

Regards,
--

Matt
Customer Support
Fasthosts Internet Ltd.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Stuart Poulton
> Sent: 27 April 2006 08:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] recomended DNS services?
>
> Hi,
>
> You can add MX entries to the DNS, a backup MX is simply an MX entry
> with a lower priority than the primary MX.
>
> To quote from the "Manage DNS page"
>
> "
> 'MX' records - These control where your email goes. Be very careful
with
> these, if you get this wrong you will lose email. You can't point
these
> at just any server, you have to have agreed this with the ISP that
> controls them. The 'priority' field in the MX records governs the
order
> in which mail servers are tried in case one is unavailable. The lower
> the number, the higher the priority. An MX with a priority of '10'
would
> be tried before one of '20'. The highest priority one must be the one
> that ultimately accepts the mail, not one that will relay it on
> elsewhere."
>
> Hope this helps, obviously you still need someone to provide the
backup
> MX service.
>
> Regards
>
> Stuart
>
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 08:37 +0100, Paul Gale wrote:
> > They told me this just a week ago :(
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Andy Laurence
> > > Sent: 27 April 2006 08:22
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] recomended DNS services?
> > >
> > > Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > [Re: 123-reg.co.uk]
> > > > You can't add a backup MX record though - or set TTL
figures
> > > > - at least, that's what their tech support told me.
> > >
> > > I'm sure I have done in the past.  Maybe it's all changed
now?  My
> > > domains have been static for quite some time.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Andy
> > >
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> --
> Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx>
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