DNS: Question about setting abc.com record

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I have several DNS servers and wondered if the following
record entry is properly set for all of my DNS servers:

$TTL 172800
@        IN SOA ns1.abc.com. admin.abc.com. (
               1               ; serial
               3H            ; refresh
               15M          ; retry
               1W            ; expiry
               1D )           ; minimum
;============ Nameserver ================
@               IN NS           ns1.abc.com.
@               IN NS           ns2.abc.com.
@               IN NS           ns3.abc.com.
;============ Mail Exchange =============
@               IN MX   10      mail1.abc.com.
@               IN MX   20      mail2.abc.com.
@               IN MX   30      mail3.abc.com.
@               IN TXT          v=spf1 a mx -all
;============ Hosts ======================
@               IN A            10.1.0.1
mail1           IN A            10.1.0.1
mail2           IN A            10.1.0.2
mail3           IN A            10.1.0.3
ns1             IN A            10.1.0.1
ns2             IN A            10.1.0.2
ns3             IN A            10.1.0.2
;========================================

In particular, I am focusing on record:
@               IN A            10.1.0.1

The reason I have set all of my DNS zones for the above record
for all of my DNS servers is because if had I set this record for the
actual localhost IP address, it appears that if I send mail on the
localhost, the localhost would receive the email I sent. For example,
sending mail to: joe@xxxxxxx would be received at the localhost instead
of being sent to mail{1,2,3}.abc.com.  Worse, any localhost programs
attempting to send emails to "root@xxxxxxx" would fail to be delivered
to one of the MX list.

So, the question is, must each DNS server have it's own real IP address
in the '@' record?  If so, how do I get around this?

Kind regards,
Dan

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