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Re: How badly have I screwed up?

From: Len Conrad
Date: Friday, January 4, 2002
Time: 6:32:54 pm


>Okay, so lists.officemedic.net and officemedic.net are two different
>zones?

do

dig lists.officemedic.net any

and

dig officemedic.net any

... to see that each can have and owns its own set of records, including MX
records.

> >mx.officemedic.net A ip.ad.re.ss
>
>Okay, that's what I was missing.
>
> >then make the MX records:
>...
> >concept: MX only tells internet to which ip to send mail for a given
> domain.
>
>Oooohh! :-)
>
>BTW, I'm buying a book on this. Do you recommend "DNS and Bind"

yes, 4th edition.

> or the
>"Concise Guide to DNS and BIND?"

I don't know it

> Should I buy the 4th edition (2001)

yes

> or
>can I get by with the 3rd edition (1998)?

If you mastered everything in the 3rd, you would be helping, not asking, in
this list! :))

... but there is a bunch of new stuff in 4th ed, so get that.

>Scary sidenote

You're gonna have to try hard now, I've seen a lot of scary DNS stuff. :))

>: my partner in Arizona (I'm in California) called his
>cable provider and told him he wanted a classless subnet reverse zone set
>up at ponyexpress.net. Threw the guy for a loop because 1) he didn't no
>what my partner was talking about

yawn :))

Len

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