Search Again: Re: Using different DNS servers for MX records? From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Time: 3:52:18 pm On 09/17/02 at 18:23, David M. Dantowitz wrote: > Can we have the normal SOA for most records, then a different one for > MX records? No. The SOA is for the entire zone, not for individual records. > e.g., have mail.domain.com be run on a DNS server that handles dynamic > DNS, but JUST for the mail server, not for other entries? IOW, you want the A record, not the MX, for the mail server to be handled by a different name server, right? In that case, give the mail server a name that's in a different zone (or sub-zone) than the domains it serves. Then you can put the mail server's zone on a separate name server and just point the MX records for your hosted domains to its canonical name. I.e., you have an A record for the mail server in the mail.server.domain. zone: smtp.mail.server.domain. A 111.222.333.444 Then in the zone(s) for the domains that the mail server serves, you have: hosted.domain. MX 10 smtp.mail.server.domain. Since mail.server.domain. and hosted.domain. are in different zones, they can be served by different name servers. An MX record doesn't have to point to a name in the same domain. -- Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/>

Messages In This Thread: Using different DNS servers for MX records? by David M. Dantowitz on Sep 17, 2002 at 3:23:53 pm Re: Using different DNS servers for MX records? by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 17, 2002 at 3:52:18 pm Re: Using different DNS servers for MX records? by David M. Dantowitz on Sep 17, 2002 at 6:56:24 pm Re: Using different DNS servers for MX records? by Men & Mice Support on Sep 19, 2002 at 12:20:38 am Re: Using different DNS servers for MX records? by David M. Dantowitz on Sep 23, 2002 at 1:26:01 pm Re: Using different DNS servers for MX records? by Men & Mice Support on Sep 23, 2002 at 3:11:21 pm