Search Again: Re: MX records From: Craig Bowers Date: Thursday, March 27, 2003 Time: 11:56:52 pm > 1. All mail to lemoorenet.com to go to mail.lemoorenet.com. Your > address is yourname@lemoorenet.com That part looks find. Just make sure your mail server (mail.lemoorenet.com) is set to accept mail for lemoorenet.com and that part is fine (though you may want to get a secondary mail server running as well, and/or an additional one off-net). > 2. www.lemoorenet.com to be going to the same place as lemoorenet.com > in your browser. I don't see the CNAME record for the webserver but if it's the server at 209.78.77.5 then that's fine too. The browser will be directed to the server. If the server is using virtual domains however you'll also have to configure it to drop browsers with lemoorenet.com in in the host tag, into the same folder as for www.lemoorenet.com for it to function as expected. DNS only points you to the right server, whether it be an A record, a CNAME, or an MX record. It's still required that you tell the mail or web server to accept the traffic for the given domain, and what to do with it. lemoorenet.com www.lemoorenet.com and mail.lemoorenet.com are of course three different entities as far as mail and web servers know. > So I think my problem right now is the A record to lemoorenet.com is an > address on the mail server when really it should be pointed to the > webserver with a cname www.lemoorenet.com. Doesn't seem to be, unless you've got multiple mail servers (not indicated by the MX records), or you have multiple IP's on the mail server. The mail server seems to be 209.78.77.36 The A record for lemoorenet.com is .5 If .5 is the web server, that's fine. It's my understanding that you may either create a CNAME pointing www.lemoorenet.com to lemoorenet.com or an additional A record is allowable. An IP may have two A records. One for lemoorenet.com and one for www.lemoorenet.com > So the MX record answers and says go to mail.lemoorenet.com for all > mail that comes to the domain lemoorenet.com? Yes, as configured in your post, essentially yes. And your mail server would have to be configured to accept mail for lemoorenet.com > Hopefully this all makes since and maybe I do understand it and just > didn't implement it properly. Hopefully I haven't missed the gist of your question.

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