Search Again: Re: more load balancing From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, January 6, 2000 Time: 6:53:00 pm At 9:31 AM -0500 1/6/2000, Paul S Vail wrote: >> example.com. NS primary.example.com. >> example.com. NS pokie.example.com. >> example.com. MX 10 primary.example.com. >> example.com. MX 20 pokie.example.com. >> example.com. A <address of primary> >> primary.example.com. A <address of primary> >> pokie.example.com. A <address of pokie> >> www.example.com. Load Hosts: 2 (primary and pokie) >> >>You can also add records like this, if you like: >> mail.example.com. CNAME primary.example.com. >> ftp.example.com. CNAME primary.example.com. > >Chris, > >I have another question. When setting up the domain (be it normal or >virtual), the qdns wizard creats a MX record with the parameter 2 as >mail.xxx.xxx rather than the name server as is apparently depicted above. > Then, the mail.xxx.xxx is used as a CNAME, which is picked off by DNS >Expert as a no-no (yet it works o.k.) thoughts? The assistant will suggest using the name "mail.xxx.xxx" (but you can choose another), and it will also create an A record for that name. In this case, you should not create a CNAME record for it. To create the above using the assistant, you'd override the suggested mail server names with "primary" and "pokie", then manually create the CNAME record for "mail" (if desired). The point of the CNAME record named "mail" (above) is so that you can tell users to enter "mail.example.com" as their POP3/IMAP and SMTP servers. However, you should never use a CNAME alias in an MX record - doing so will cause some mail to bounce, and you may never find about it. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Re: more load balancing by Paul S Vail on Jan 6, 2000 at 2:31:00 pm Re: more load balancing by Men & Mice Support on Jan 6, 2000 at 6:53:00 pm