Search Again: Re: Question on DNS From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2000 Time: 5:09:00 am At 8:26 PM -0800 2/1/00, Bennie Warren wrote: >I am preparing to split my mail server into one server for POP and one for >SMTP. I know my MX record should be the SMTP server. Then the POP server >will be the domain.com. Is it legal for each domain to use the same address >record like below? If so, how would you do the reverse records? > >lemoorenet.com MX mail.lemoorenet.com >mail.lemoorenet.com A 209.78.77.5 >lemoorenet.com A 209.78.77.25 > >macispsoftware.com MX mail.macispsoftware.com >mail.macispsoftware.com A 209.78.77.5 >macispsoftware.com A 209.78.77.35 > >clickware.com MX mail.clickware.com >mail.clickware.com A 209.78.77.5 >clickware.com A 209.78.77.45 > >Thanks >Bennie Your MX record should point to whatever server is going to accept connections from the outside. Only set it to your SMTP server if the SMTP server will then forward these messages to your POP server(s). It is perfectly legal to use multiple names for the same address, as you have done above. (Don't forget periods on the ends of all your records, and don't forget the mail server preference number.) Your PTR record for this address should resolve to any one of these names. You simply won't have a PTR record that resolves to the other names - you shouldn't have more than one PTR record per IP address. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Question on DNS by Bennie Warren on Feb 2, 2000 at 4:26:00 am Re: Question on DNS by Men & Mice Support on Feb 2, 2000 at 5:09:00 am