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One more/clarification on this.
Re: new zone, please test - one more
From: Dale Therio
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Time: 10:12:55 am
Currently most of my domains use mail. so I will slowly
transition to the protocol based names.
so my inbound for some domains will remain mail. for now, the
"new" ones would use mx1. And my backup mail server will be
mx2.colony.net for all domains.
What is the proper way to handle this?
Thanks
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:04:50 +0000
"Dale Therio" <stuff@colony.net> wrote:
>Len,
>
>Another question.
>
>As I use CommuniGate basically smtp, pop, imap, etc are all
>on the same IP and machine now anyway. However, there are
>some things I may do in the future that will call for
>seperates so I will go ahead and set it up that way.
>
>My question is, what is the proper way to enter the info for
>a secondary MX machine?
>
>Do I stick another A record in and then an mx record with
>just a lower (higher number) priority?
>
>Further, I believe I have the DNS setup so that http requests
>for domain.com will go to the web server, and email addressed
>as user@domain.com will go to the mail server without having
>to use user@mail.domain.com
>
>Thanks
>
>Dale
>
>On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:34:38 -0600
> Len Conrad <LenConrad@MenAndMice.com> wrote:
>>Dales,
>>
>>Chris has answered you with good advice. Here's some based
>>on my experience as both DNS admin and mail admin:
>>
>>>--- begin zone file ---
>>>
>>>$ttl 38400
>>>knittedsocks.com. IN SOA mail.colony.net.
>>>hostmaster.colony.net. (
>>> 2001112505
>>> 10800
>>> 3600
>>> 604800
>>> 38400 )
>>>knittedsocks.com. IN NS mail.colony.net.
>>
>>It's free so register ns1 and ns2 with your registrar, even
>>if you use only ns1 for now. don't use mail as your NS
>>hostname.
>>
>>>mail.knittedsocks.com. IN A 208.146.240.249
>>
>>mail.knittedsocks.com. mx 10 mail.knittedsocks.com.
>>
>>>www.knittedsocks.com. IN A 208.146.240.248
>>>knittedsocks.com. IN A 208.146.240.248
>>>knittedsocks.com. IN MX 10 mail.colony.net.
>>
>>I suggest you create hostname for each mail function:
>>
>>smtp A 208.146.240.249 ; users send outbound mail (SMTP
>>AUTH)
>>pop A 208.146.240.249 ; users read pop mailoxes
>>imap A 208.146.240.249 ; users read imap mailoxes
>>webmail A 208.146.240.249 ; users do webmail
>>mx1 A 208.146.240.249 ; internet sends inbound mail here
>>
>>mx1.knittedsocks.com. mx 10 mx1.knittedsocks.com.
>>
>>It free and easy to create hostnames, so don't hestitate.
>>Many inexperience mail admins create just "mail.domain" and
>>find that is too restrictive later, and very difficult to
>>almost impossible to change later since the users put
>>"mail.domain" in their mail programs (often needing
>>assistance for that) and are usually lost when you later want
>>to use "functional" names, ie, when you use different
>>boxes/ip's for different mail function, typically one box as
>>inbound MX host, separated from the mailbox server (which
>>shouldn't be connected directly to Internet as the MX host).
>
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