From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 22:40:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD8A37B585 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 22:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss [209.100.22.250] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id AB76860015A; Sun, 04 Jun 2000 01:39:02 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Doug Barton" Cc: , Subject: RE: IP vs CNAME Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 01:40:42 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3939CF8A.D02BF459@gorean.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ** -----Original Message----- ** From: Doug Barton ** ** Troy Settle wrote: ** ** > Uh... MX has nothing to do with the web hosting side of things. ** ** Man... I wish that were true. People who own domain names ** want custom DNS ** records associated with them. MX records are one of the most common ** requests. MX records point to the mail server. This can be in the same domain or not, it makes no difference at all. I suggest you read up on DNS configurations. >From my experience, most customers couldn't comprehend what an MX record is. All they care about, is that their customers are able to access their web site at http://www.domain.com, and that their customers can email them at someone@domain.com. Nevermind that the primary MX for domain.com points to mail.isp.net, it makes no damned bit of difference at all. ** ** > As for your basic DNS config, there's absolutely nothign ** wrong with the ** > following: ** ** Except that it doesn't work. There's no SOA record, and Oh man... you like to pick nits. I didn't think I'd have to go quite so far as to bore everyone with an SOA record. But since you insist: @ IN SOA ns1.isp.net. hostmaster.isp.net. ( 2000060401 10800 3600 3600000 86400 ) IN MX 10 mailhost.isp.net. IN MX 20 spooler.isp.net. IN NS ns1.isp.net. IN NS ns2.isp.net. @ IN CNAME webhost.isp.net. www IN CNAME webhost.isp.net. mail IN CNAME mailhost.isp.net. Happy now? I trust that you won't find too much wrong with the SOA record, I did it from memory. ** you can't combine ** CNAME RR's and other RR's for the same host. Actually, I don't use CNAMEs that often, and never realized this. Yes, I use one IP per hosted domain, thank you. -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message