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When should one use MX records?

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From: Anthony J.R. Heading
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 18:48
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I'm trying to get the hang of this... Can someone explain?
If I want to receive Internet mail, I might attach a machine
foo.company.uk to the network, and have this as my mail address
directly. I'd like, though, to have company.uk as my email address.

Should I:
   a) call the machine company.uk instead
   b) have company.uk as an alias for foo.company.uk
   c) register company.uk as a name with MX records
        pointing to foo, then foo-backup, foo-reserve etc
   
When a large organisation has a "high-level" email address
(dec.com, mitre.org, mit.edu  [though these are just guesses])
do they usually correspond to physical machines, or to virtual
machines with MX records?

Is there any disadvantage to the second approach, which seems
on the face of it to be more flexible and more reliable?

AJRH
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From: heading@breeze.rsre.mod.uk (Anthony J.R. Heading)
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Subject: When should one use MX records?
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Date: 8 Oct 92 18:48:17 GMT
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