Re: What's wrong with this DNS entry?

Hello,

Fred a écrit :
I know someone with a godaddy linux box,

What is this ?

that when you try and do a lookup of the MX record returns this:

dig somedomain.org mx +short

20 213.67.173.4.somedomain.org.

It should just return somedomain.org. What exactly is wrong with this DNS
record?

My guess is the MX record data field in the zone file was wrongly filled with a IP address while a host name is expected. So the dotted quad form of the IP address is considered as an unqualified domain name (no trailing dot) and is appended the current origin, which is zone domain name.
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