mail exchange

Steven Hanley sjh at wibble.net
Tue Dec 3 15:51:46 EST 2002


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:48:30PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
> At 3:39 PM +1100 02/12/3, James McNeill wrote:
> >Afternoon everyone.
> > 
> >How do I manually query a domain for it's default mail exchange?
> 
> nslookup -q=mx google.com

or, due to the fact nslookup is deprecated (idiotic thing that) on many
dists

host -t mx google.com

dig can do more if you really want of course.

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