Search Again: Re: MX records question From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 Time: 1:11:56 am At 1:42 AM -0400 4/28/00, Paul S Vail wrote: >I could not find an archive of the talk list, so will pose this question >here. We're putting the final touches on it. It's almost ready for prime time. :) >I host a domain for http, but the client wants to maintain mail services >through another IP with a different hosting service. What special >adjustments should be made to point queries or an address record to the >other IP address for mail to find its way? Or, will the zone updates >simply find my machine and the other machine automatically? > >simple table is: > >client.com. NS server.me.com. >client.com. NS server2.me.com. >www.client.com. A 111.22.333.44 >client.com. A 111.22.333.44 >ftp.client.com. A 111.22.333.44 > >Do I need: > >client.com. NS server.me.com. >client.com. NS server2.me.com. >client.com. MX 10 mail.client.com. >www.client.com. A 111.22.333.44 >client.com A 111.22.333.44 >ftp.client.com. A 111.22.333.44 >mail.client.com. A 555.66.777.88 (the other IP handling the >mail serving) > > >I'm sure there is reason to have the MX records and A record to redirect >to the other IP (555.66.7.88), but I don't fully grok what exactly needs >to be entered. Rather than add an A record for a machine you don't control, you could add an MX record that looks like this: client.com. MX 10 mail.otherisp.com. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: MX records question by Paul S Vail on Apr 27, 2000 at 10:44:14 pm Re: MX records question by Men & Mice Support on Apr 28, 2000 at 1:11:56 am