Search Again: Re: Non-domain records From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, June 8, 2000 Time: 11:07:34 pm At 12:09 PM +1000 6/9/00, Tim Robinson wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm wanting to use the nameservers ns1.maindomain.com.au and >ns2.maindomain.com.au as nameservers for another domain >otherdomain.com. See below: > >maindomain.com.au. NS ns1.maindomain.com.au. >maindomain.com.au. NS ns2.maindomain.com.au. >ns1.maindomain.com.au. A 1.2.3.4 >ns2.maindomain.com.au. A 1.2.3.5 >maindomain.com.au. MX 10 mail.maindomain.com.au. >mail.maindomain.com.au. A 1.2.3.6 >www.maindomain.com.au. A 1.2.3.4 > >otherdomain.com. MX 20 mail.otherdomain.com. >mail.otherdomain.com. A 2.2.2.2 >www.otherdomain.com. A 1.2.3.4 > >Will there be a problem with this? When I created the records for >the new domain, it didn't ask me if I wanted to create reverse >lookups or anything like that. Does it need them? I someone says >"This will work fine" that would be music to my ears. (If it's true >of course). Reverse records are a thorny issue. Luckily, for most services, a server doesn't really need one. Routers and mail servers are the exception. If you have a mail server on a certain IP address, that IP address should have exactly one name, which you would use throughout all your domains. That name would also be used in the PTR record for that address. Keep in mind that you should make sure that your reverse zone is delegated to your servers before creating a reverse zone. Unfortunately, the Domain Assistant is a little too eager to create them, without asking if that's proper. Looking at your records above, I don't see any NS records for otherdomain.com. You do have them, don't you? They should look something like this: otherdomain.com. NS ns1.maindomain.com.au. otherdomain.com. NS ns2.maindomain.com.au. Mind those ending dots - without them, you'll get things like ns1.maindomain.com.au.otherdomain.com, which isn't at all what you want. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Non-domain records by Tim Robinson on Jun 8, 2000 at 7:11:27 pm Re: Non-domain records by Men & Mice Support on Jun 8, 2000 at 11:07:34 pm