[clue] Server and Drupal team news

[David L. Willson]

> From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com>
> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:08:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue] Server and Drupal team news
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:56 PM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
> > #3.3  mail and website can be on different servers with same domain
> > name.
> >
> 
> Cool. I did not know that. So how does that work. If DNS points to
> cluedenver.org on some server (or multiple servers?), how do you
> distinguish between http://cluedenver.org and mail to
> somebody at cluedenver.org?
> 
> In advance: I'm a big dummy about such matters.

It's an MX record. Every domain that receives mail is supposed to have one, and for SMTP, that record has priority over the A record. The A record is only used to deliver mail if an MX record can't be found.

Try "dig mx thegeek.nu" "dig thegeek.nu" "dig mx parsec.com" "dig parsec.com"