[Dnsmasq-discuss] Question: wildcard address for MX hosts?

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Tue Feb 4 11:28:48 GMT 2014


On 03/02/14 12:01, Bob Brown - Turboweb wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> I'm a long time user of dnsmasq and I'm giving a presentation tomorrow
> in which I assumed that dnsmasq could resolve any MX request to an
> alternate IP address. It can do it for named domains but I'd like to do
> it for any MX like can be done for A records using the
> address=/#/1.2.3.4 notation (we use this to great effect inside our
> development environment).
>
> Can I do the same for MX records? The reason being that development
> machines can then deliver email to any MX they ask for and it would be
> delivered locally. From reading the documentation and trying it out I
> can't get it to work.
>
> I'd appreciate any help you can give.

Sorry to disappoint, but this isn't possible, the wildcard facility 
doesn't extend to MX records.


Cheers,

Simon.

>
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>
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