Re: [edlug] dig

[Apollon Koutlidis <apollon@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Andrew Beames wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was messing around with dig and got (what I think is) a strange result.. 
> Does the output below mean that virgin is using googlemail under the covers?
>
>
> $ dig -t MX virginmedia.com
>   
[snip]
> virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
> virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
> virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      10 aspmx2.googlemail.com. 
> virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      10 aspmx3.googlemail.com. 
> virginmedia.com.        3543    IN      MX      1 aspmx.l.google.com.     
>   
Those are indeed the MX entries for redirecting a domain's mail to 
Google Apps:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=33915

Interesting indeed.

Cheers,
Apollon

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