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Summary

.NET DNS MX Wizard by Seekford Solutions

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Query DNS Servers for MX, IP, domain and other records. .NET DNS MX Wizard is a class library that lets you query a Domain Name System (DNS) Server for Mail Exchange (MX) Resource Records (RR) and other types of queries. MX RR's contain the name of the server responsible for handling mail for a domain. You can also use multiple DNS server's for faster and more robust queries. Most DNS queries are supported, including the basic IP -> Domain names and Domain Name -> IP's query.

.NET DNS MX Wizard is a class library that lets you query a Domain Name System(DNS) server for Mail Exchange(MX) Resource Records(RR) and other types of DNS queries. MX RR's contain the name of the server responsible for handling mail for a domain. Multiple resource records can exist for any server and each record has an associated preference level with it which lets you determine which server to try and communicate with first. You can also use multiple DNS server's for faster and more robust queries. Most DNS queries are supported, including the basic IP -> Domain names and Domain Name -> IP's query and also the Zone Authority information.

This control has many uses, here are some

You can write your own SMTP Server and use this to lookup where to deliver the mail

Verify email addresses by looking up the domains MX record and verifying the email address with the mail server for the domain

Verifying and watching to make sure your companies MX records are correct and haven't been 'hacked'

Pull up Zone Authority Records for a domain

View all the IP's associated with a domain

The control gives you complete control over the data by letting you access all the returned MX servers, their preference level and automatically giving you the preferred server. The class can automatically detect the local machines DNS server and also allows you to set your own DNS server to use for the lookup.

The .NET DNS MX Wizard class library has a lot of power and features built-in. All the code is 100% managed and does not rely on any external dll's or dependencies. The code is written to be highly efficient and robust. Asynchronous and Synchronous methods provide greater control of how you want to implement the functionality.

Seekford Solutions component products are being retired on June 30th, 2011 and will not be available for purchase after that date. If you wish to buy a license, please do so before June 30th, 2011.

Query DNS Servers for MX, IP, domain and other records.

Evals & Downloads: Read the .NET DNS MX Wizard Help

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET Class, 100% Managed Code

Built Using: Visual C# .NET

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Delphi 7.0, .NET Framework 1.1

Product Class: Business Components

Keywords: dns mx domain mail lookup

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