Your email hosting can not work without DNS. The Mail Exchange (MX) records defined in the Zone file inside your DNS server tell where your email should go to. Usually, there are two DNS servers where one serves as backup. For those mission critical one, it is not surprised to see more than two nameservers been used.

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