Thursday, October 24, 2013

Email SMTP Host DNS MX Record

Sometimes the mail gateway is configured as MX record
 ie test-mail-router.example.com
You can't get any IP from nslookup from  test-mail-router.example.com
However you can use dig and find hostnames behind MX record
dig  test-mail-router.example.com  mx

How it works ,refer wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record

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