At 11:56 AM 1/10/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Sounds a little misunderstanding for me. I think that MX records of course
>will need a A record.
>
>when
>domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.anything.com.
>then mail.anything.com must have a working DNS-entry (A record). If=
anything
>=3D domain then the A record of course has to be within the same db-file.
>
>I cannot see why
>
>domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.domain.com.
>
>@ IN A x.x.x.3
>mail IN A x.x.x.2
>ns IN A x.x.x.2
>www IN A x.x.x.3
>
>shouldn't work. What exactly was the error message?
>
>-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Mitch Wagers <mwagers@ocsnet.net>
>An: ntisp@emerald.iea.com <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
>Datum: Samstag, 10. Januar 1998 10:34
>Betreff: Re: DNS Question
>
>
>>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?
>>>
>>>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?
>>>
>>>Our DNS DB looks something like this.
>>>
>>>domain.com. IN NS ns.domain.com.
>>>
>>>domain.com. IN MX mail.domain.com.
>>>
>>>@ 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
>>>
>>>Obviously using this configuration http://domain.com resolved to the
>>>mail server and not the web server.
>>>
>>>Changing:
>>>@ IN A x.x.x.2
>>>
>>>to:
>>>
>>>@ IN A x.x.x.3
>>>
>>>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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