Re: http://domainname

Mitch Wagers ( mwagers@ocsnet.net )
Thu, 02 Apr 1998 22:19:20 -0800

Put it this way, a mail server sending mail to you queries for MX records,
not A records. In other words, DNS and SMTP is smart enough to know the
difference between two hosts...

At 09:11 PM 4/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>What do you do if your mail and WWW server are on the same machine?
>
>If we put a @ entry pointing to our Web server, our mail server does it's MX
>lookups and resolves our mail server to the Web server, preventing the use
>of e-mail.
>
>Is there any way to use the @ command to point to the WEB server and still
>have e-mail sent to "domain.com" route to the mail server on a seperate
>machine?
>
>
>>Just add an "A" Record with no hostname.
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Howard A. Brooks <admin@iamnow.net>
>>To: NTISP Emerald <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
>>Date: Thursday, April 02, 1998 6:27 PM
>>Subject: http://domainname
>>
>>
>>>Hi All:
>>>
>>>I once saw an answer on this, but lost it. If the URL has no www how
>>>can my server insert it so the domain will still be found? I
>>>currently have a www CNAME pointing to my web server. What I'm I
>>>missing?
>>>
>>>Howard Brooks - President - IamNet, Inc. - http://www.iamnow.net
>>>Your one stop Internet service, support and solutions shop.
>>>
>>>
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