Changing the MX record to windows live domains

[yais]

Hi,

I have added the following MX record to my domain, raidnet.org:

DNS Record Type: MX
Host: raidnet.org
MX server: 459652140.pamx1.hotmail.com
Priority: 0 (or High priority)

You can see that in the screenshot here:

However, windows live still says I am pending DNS configuration.

When I do a MX lookup of my domain:

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/index.aspx

IT shows the host name as being: "459652140.pamx1.hotmail.com.raidnet.org" instead of just "459652140.pamx1.hotmail.com"

I have used windows live domains before and have a live site using it however, now for some reason, it is adding the .raidnet.org at the end of the host i typed in.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[tillo]

Every name you put in any DNS system is relative to the zone unless you put a dot (.) at the end.
The correct MX record would be "459652140.pamx1.hotmail.com."

You also shouldn't use "0" as priority, it's common use to put "10" there, so that it will be faster to put some emergency server before the default one, if for example it's losing all incoming emails (unless, of course, Hotmail requires priority 0... which doesn't surprise me at all. Their servers are a mess.)