Search Again: Re: How badly have I screwed up? From: Don Morris Date: Friday, January 4, 2002 Time: 9:07:55 am On 1/4/02 3:09 AM, Men & Mice Support wrote: >Just have one MX record per zone. If you get a backup mail server in >the future, you can add another MX record to each zone with relative >ease. Okay, that's simple enough. >>And those names/records would look like what? Perhaps >> >>pop.officemedic.net CNAME mx1.officemedic.net ?? > >Well, as Len indicated, CNAME records are not for newbies. But >there's no reason that particular record wouldn't work, assuming >you're going to run all mail-related services on one machine for the >moment. > >If you really want to use CNAME records, just make sure that whatever >name you use in the data portion (the right side) of an MX record, >that name must have an A record and not a CNAME record. Also, keep in >mind that a CNAME record can't have the same name as any other record. My purpose for using CNAME records -- as was explained to me -- is that if I changed the IP address of an A record in the officemedic.net zone for, as an example, lists.officemedic.net, I wouldn't have to go through every other zone and also update the IP address. If that's not what CNAME records are for then I can do something different. Your two caveats are well taken; I'll watch for that. >>I'm having a problem where sending email through mail.officemedic.com, >>for example, results in an error returned to EIMS: "Response: 450 Client >>host rejected, cannot find your host name, [12.39.138.244]." > >That's a problem that's most likely created by your lack of a hostname. Uh, is this something I can fix? Where and how? >You should replace this CNAME record with the following, for maximum >reliability: > >lists.officemedic.net. MX 10 lists.officemedic.net. >lists.officemedic.net. A <IP address of list server> Done. >You should then configure your list server (is that EIMS or something >else?) to accept mail for the name lists.officemedic.net. Yes, EIMS accepts mail for lists.officemedic.net and routes it to port 325, where LetterRip (the list server, on the same machine) is listening. >>So instead of >> >> mail.officemedic.com. CNAME mail.officemedic.net. >> >>I should have used >> >> mail.officemedic.com. A 12.39.239.244 ?? > >Yes, that's what Len is suggesting. I can't disagree with him. Hmm. I was hoping CNAMEs would make it easier for me. I'll read up on them. Thanks! -- Don Morris $10,000 Marketing Tip: <http://1deg.net/mtotd.html>

Messages In This Thread: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 1, 2002 at 2:44:34 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 1, 2002 at 5:13:21 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 3, 2002 at 10:40:49 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 2:49:13 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 3:10:08 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:07:55 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 3:10:28 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 3:27:21 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 4:40:29 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 4:53:37 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 6:07:41 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 6:32:54 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 7:24:33 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 7:27:58 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 7:29:49 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:33:03 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:36:40 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:44:07 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 10:29:51 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 5, 2002 at 4:17:19 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 5, 2002 at 6:32:21 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 5, 2002 at 11:08:01 pm