Search Again: Re: Hosted domain Mail Config... From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, December 9, 1999 Time: 3:19:00 am At 9:14 PM -0500 12/8/99, Rob Thiemann wrote: >Hello All, > >Ok, I'm trying to do this: > >I have my DNS entries like this: > >alice.netshak.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >netshak.com. MX 10 alice.netshak.com. >mail.netshak.com. CNAME alice.netshak.com. > >I also have a domain I'm hosting that's set up like this: > >customer.com MX 10 alice.netshak.com. >mail.customer.com CNAME alice.netshak.com. > >I was going to try to make it so that I could have them log on to mail.customer.com so they wouldn't have to log into mail.netshak.com for their eMail, but it's not resolving for some reason. can you tell me why? > >What needs to change? Am I violating any DNS rules (or trying to?)? I assume these customer.com records have names that end in a period ("customer.com.") in your actual records. If so... This ought to work. However, handling of CNAME records can be inconsistent - some client programs just don't follow the rules. To work around this problem, try this record instead: mail.customer.com. A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Hosted domain Mail Config... by Rob Thiemann on Dec 9, 1999 at 2:14:00 am Re: Hosted domain Mail Config... by Men & Mice Support on Dec 9, 1999 at 3:19:00 am Re: Hosted domain Mail Config... by Rob Thiemann on Dec 9, 1999 at 3:22:00 am