Search Again: mail.xxx.com (was Re: Newbie questions) From: JWBaumann@aol.com Date: Monday, May 7, 2001 Time: 2:28:06 pm >on 5/7/01 4:05 PM, Sean Stephens at lasso@treefroginteractive.com wrote: > >> 1. Why should an MX record NOT be set up in the format "xxx.com" and instead >> in the format "mail.xxx.com". Is there a problem associated with doing so? and Matt Henderson responded: >It is allowable that an MX record points to xxx.com (as far as I'm aware.) >However, creating a MX record for a hostname mail.xxx.com (which may point >to the same IP address of xxx.com) can be very convenient if you ever need >to separate your mail server from your, e.g., web server. Another closely related suggestion: if you have several IP addresses to work with from the start, set up a secondary IP addresses file on your server (WebSTAR for most of us, but I assume this works with any server) and use those addresses for your virtual hosts. If QDNS is on another machine, then the primary IP address of your Web server is free to be uniquely associated with mail.xxx.com (well, except for FTP maybe). When you decide to separate mail and Web serving to different machines, you need only manipulate the secondary IP addresses files, but not change anything with your DNS or registrar, and AOL can find your sites immediately since they will not have moved IP-address-wise. I did this 4 months ago and it went very smoothly. As to getting newbies to never post with the word "newbie" in the subject..... Jeff Baumann jwbaumann@aol.com www.linkedresources.com

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