MX Record - IP Address

[theacidfrog]

Hi,

Newbie to this forum

I am completing a domain transfer for a client from one host to another as we are the new web providers for the client.

The old web designer is trying to get us to re-direct the MX record to his current mail server IP (78.33.**.***), because the client doesn't want their email to go down (not even for a short period of time).

I can see an option on our cPanel for the client called MX Entry Maintenance but this seems to only re-direct to a domain if im not mistaken... not an IP address... any help on how to do this? Or is this the wrong way to do this..?

Cheers
Sam

[sparek-3]

MX records have to point to a hostname. They cannot use an IP address.

You would need to create an A record in the DNS zone for example:

mx IN A xx.xx.xx.xx

Where xx.xx.xx.xx refers to the IP address of the mail server you want to use.

Then change the MX records to:

domain.com. IN MX 10 mx.domain.com.