Search Again: Re: moving MX record From: Mitch Kahn Date: Friday, March 5, 2004 Time: 3:17:26 am Carston, Thanks. Here is what I did. I set up the mail records as domain.com MX 10 mail.domain.com. and mail.domain.com. A 216.120.196.22 I appreciate your help. Regards, Mitch On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 04:45 AM, Carsten Strotmann wrote: > Hello Mitch, > > a MX Record entry must point to a name, not to an IP Address. A > solution > would be to create a Host (A) Record entry for the IP Address > 216.120.196.22, like > > newmail.worldoffloors.com. A 216.120.196.22 > > and let the MX Record point to this new name: > > worldoffloors.com. MX 10 newmail.worldoffloors.com. > > Best regards > > Carsten Strotmann > > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 00:24, Mitch Kahn wrote: >> We have been running mail on our WebSTAR 4.5 server with the Web >> hosting. I am now moving mail to a CommunigatePro server on OS X and a >> new machine. >> >> Here is my problem. >> The records were set-up as: >> worldoffloors.com. NS Superior.Middlecoast.net. >> worldoffloors.com. NS Huron.Middlecoast.net. >> worldoffloors.com. NS NS1.anothercompany.com. >> worldoffloors.com. MX 10 mail.middlecoast.net. >> mail.worldoffloors.com. A 216.120.196.11 >> worldoffloors.com. A 216.120.196.17 >> www.worldoffloors.com. CName worldoffloors.com. >> >> >> >> I am trying to change the mail address to: >> worldoffloors.com. MX 10 worldoffloors.com. >> >> which would put the mail on 216.120.196.17 >> >> But I want the mail to be o 216.120.196.22 >> >> So I tried the following. >> worldoffloors.com. MX 10 216.120.196.22 >> >> But QDNS Pro version 2.2.1 (On OS 9.2) concatenates the file so that >> it >> reads: >> worldoffloors.com. MX 10 216.120.196.22worldoffloors.com. >> >> I have tried to delete the "worldoffloors.com." concatenated on to the >> end several times,but without success. >> >> Any suggestions? I need to fix this at once. OR, am I doing this >> totally wrong? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Mitch >> >> >> _ >> >> Mitchell Kahn >> mitch@middlecoast.net >> >> Tel. 616.241.5650 x10 >> Fax 616.241.3583 >> Cell 616.813.7170 >> >> 1154 Calvin Avenue Southeast >> Grand Rapids, MI 49506-3237 >> USA >> >> > > _ Mitchell Kahn mitch@middlecoast.net Tel. 616.241.5650 x10 Fax 616.241.3583 Cell 616.813.7170 1154 Calvin Avenue Southeast Grand Rapids, MI 49506-3237 USA

Messages In This Thread: moving MX record by Mitch Kahn on Mar 4, 2004 at 3:35:56 pm Re: moving MX record by Carsten Strotmann on Mar 5, 2004 at 1:48:03 am Re: moving MX record by Mitch Kahn on Mar 5, 2004 at 3:17:26 am