On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Interestingly, it turns out that domains such as isd197.k12.mn.us are
> a complete mystery and thoroughly unmemorable to the average computer
> user. As a result, it's nearly impossible to tell someone that our Web site
> is www.isd197.k12.mn.us and have them remember it without writing it down.
>
> The good news is that I've convinced our head network geek to buy isd197.org
> and move our email and URLs to that domain. :-)
>
> Here's the question:  We're considering giving students email accounts, but
> our sysadmin doesn't want them on the same GroupWise server that the staff
> uses. He plans to use a simple non-GroupWise NetWare SMTP package. I
> suggested that we give the students an email account like
> 654321 at students.isd197.org.
>
> Can we set an MX record for isd197.k12.mn.us and isd197.org pointing to the
> same IP address along with an MX record for students.isd197.org pointing to
> a different IP address? How should we approach this?

yes.

isd197.org.		IN	MX	5 teachers.isd197.org.
			IN	MX	[10|15|etc]

isd197.k12.mn.us.	IN	MX	5 teachers.isd197.org.

students.isd197.org.	IN	MX	5 students.isd197.org.

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