Re: DNS Question

Mitch Wagers ( mwagers@ocsnet.net )
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:25:43 -0800

MX records don't have to have an A record...therefore, you configure the Web
for both www and domain.com and just stick your MX record for the Mail server.

At 01:52 AM 1/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>If your mail server and web server are on two different machines. How
>do you configure your system to allow both http://www.domain.com and
>http://domain.com to resolve to your web server?
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>It's my understanding that domain.com must point to your mail server.
>Is this true? If not, how do you configure DNS to resolve MX lookups
>properly?
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>Our DNS DB looks something like this.
>
>domain.com. IN NS ns.domain.com.
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>domain.com. IN MX mail.domain.com.
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>@ IN A x.x.x.2
>mail IN A x.x.x.2
>ns IN A x.x.x.2
>www IN A x.x.x.3
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>Obviously using this configuration http://domain.com resolved to the
>mail server and not the web server.
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>Changing:
>@ IN A x.x.x.2
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>to:
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>@ IN A x.x.x.3
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>Allows both http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com to resolve to
>the web server. However, mail services died. MX lookups would show
>www.domain.com as the host.
>
>What do I need to do?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
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