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How to do a MX lookup on windows

Published on September 22, 2005
By Pete Freitag

Here's a little trick you can use to lookup an MX record for a domain. MX records are the Mail Exchanger records in DNS - they specify what IP address email should be directed to for the domain. So open up the command prompt (Start - Run - cmd)

nslookup
> set type=mx
> example.com

How to do a MX lookup on windows was first published on September 22, 2005.

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