Mx Record? Ns Record

[kambui]

Can any one supply kind of guide on these two ....I know CNAME and A record but this two are new to me and i need a good concept on this two in my workplace.I did exchange server during my MCSE boot camp but my company uses Mercury32 for local mail and qmail on the internet side, it uses some kind of fetch mail which is new to me .....any explanation is welcomed.

Regards

Kambui

Edited July 2, 2007 by kambui

[jcarle]

MX stands for Mail Exchanger and lists mail servers available for a domain.

NS stands for Name Server and is needed for domain name resolution.

You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_s..._of_DNS_records