Search Again: Re: Argh! From: Sigurdur Ragnarsson Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 Time: 4:43:00 pm John, Due to a limitation of the domain name system, you cannot create a Load Balancing record which has the same name as the domain. You must use a different name for the Load Balancing record. Because of this limitation (and because you cannot create a CNAME record with the name of your domain) you cannot create a setup where you refer to your web server by the domain name. (However, if you decide not to use a Load Balancing record, this limitation no longer applies.) Based on the above, your domain would look as follows (assuming that your Load Balancing record is www.tstmarkets.ap.org): tstmarkets.ap.org NS marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org tstmarkets.ap.org NS marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org A 165.1.16.210 marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org A 165.1.16.211 tstmarkets.ap.org MX 10 marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org tstmarkets.ap.org MX 15 marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org www.tstmarkets.ap.org LOAD (it's set to 165.1.16.210 and 165.1.16.211) ticker.tstmarkets.ap.org CNAME www.tstmarkets.ap.org Note that I changed the MX records and deleted the mail1 and mail2 CNAME records (you should only use canonical host names in MX records) As for tstbiznews.ap.org; you should delete the CNAME record which has the domain name. Corrected, your domain should look as follows: tstbiznews.ap.org NS marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org tstbiznews.ap.org NS marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org tstbiznews.ap.org MX 10 marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org tstbiznews.ap.org MX 15 marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org www.tstbiznews.ap.org CNAME www.tstmarkets.ap.org Note that I added MX records to the domain. Regards, Sigurdur >Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I haven't ever done a DNS server >before and I am not always exactly sure what I'm doing. I'm also new to >the list, so I guess this is a little like begging for help. I've been >dorking with this for a little under a week (yes, I read the manual >too) and I'm totally frustrated. > >Here's what I have: >1) Two Mac 9600 and all the assorted junk.... >2) a delegated subdomain off our main DNS server - it's set to send >anything for tstmarkets.ap.org to marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org >(165.1.16.210) or marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org (165.1.16.211) for name >serving. > >Here's what I need to do: >1) Create a domain called tstmarkets.ap.org >2) Create a load balanced www record for tstmarkets.ap.org (it has to >answer to the domain name) >3) Create two mail server records, one for each machine >4) Forward anything coming to www.tstmarkets.ap.org to the load balanced >record >5) Forward ticker.tstmarkets.ap.org to the load balanced record (I'd >like this to be handled by ClearlyHome if at all possible so I can >create a seperate area for it) >6) Create a virtual domain called tstbiznews.ap.org to be handled by >ClearlyHome on the same servers. > > >Here's where I'm at (my records in order - didn't know if I could just >attach the thing) > >tstmarkets.ap.org NS marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org >tstmarkets.ap.org NS marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org >marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org A 165.1.16.210 >marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org A 165.1.16.211 >tstmarkets.ap.org MX 10 mail11.tstmarkets.ap.org >tstmarkets.ap.org MX 15 mail2.tstmarkets.ap.org >mail1.tstmarkets.ap.org CNAME marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org >mail2.tstmarkts.ap.org CNAME marketsweb2.tstmarktes.ap.org >tstmarkets.ap.org LOAD (it's set to 165.1.16.210 and 165.1.16.211) >www.tstmarkets.ap.org CNAME tstmarkets.ap.org >ticker.tstmarkets.ap.org CNAME tstmarkets.ap.org > >tstbiznews.ap.org NS marketsweb1.tstmarkets.ap.org >tstbiznews.ap.org NS marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org >tstbiznews.ap.org CNAME marketsweb2.tstmarkets.ap.org (I wasn't sure if >I could just set this back to tstmarkets.ap.org) > >I didn't include the reverse since I don't even really get how that >works. > >Here's what's working: >If I use MacTCP Watcher on the 16.210 machine (it's set to itself for >it's DNS service in OT), it can find tstmarkets.ap.org (returns as both >16.210 and 16.211) and both of the marketsweb machines return ok too. >It's not returning www. or ticker. or tstbiznews. or mail1 or mail2 > >ANY help would be great as I think my head is about to explode. Sorry >this was so long. Thanks in advance > >j >-- >John Gamble >Associated Press, Stock Support --- Sigurdur Ragnarsson mailto:siggi@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com/

Messages In This Thread: Argh! by John Gamble on Jan 13, 1998 at 8:13:00 pm Re: Argh! by Sigurdur Ragnarsson on Jan 14, 1998 at 4:43:00 pm