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I'm in need of an mx record. I have comcast and they only allow you a few options for dynamic dns services, the free one being freedns.afraid.org. I've never set up an mx-record before so I obviously have little knowledge of what I'm dealing with. The options for both type "a" and "mx" are as follows:
Type:
Subdomain:
Domain: crabdance.com
Destination:
There is a dropdown selection of domains to choose from, I've chosen the crabdance.com domain.
For my 'A' record I have the following credentials.
Type: A
Subdomain:(myname)
Domain: crabdance.com
Destination: (public ip to my computer)
This results in (myname).crabdance.com
what would be a qualifying set of answers to fill out the mx record?
Type: A
Subdomain: [freedns.afraid.org says to leave this blank]
Domain: crabdance.com
Destination: ?
when I try to enter 10:mail.(myname).crabdance.com (this is recommended by freedns.afraid.org) I receive the following error messsage upon submitting the form:
Core subdomains (www, ftp, mail, irc, @) are reserved for the domain owner only [crabdance.com].
any help would be appreciated, thanks!
1Great answer! This worked for me. They really should have explained it better on their site. – sudo – 2016-05-23T05:51:04.337
@sudo: Thankyou and KEEP SMILING :-) – nIcE cOw – 2016-05-23T11:55:51.503