From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 19:52:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from convio.com (alba.convio.com [63.91.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408F537B542 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@convio.com) Received: from convio.com (IDENT:dave@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by convio.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA06782; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:55:06 -0600 Message-ID: <38B9F199.13A82908@convio.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:55:05 -0600 From: David Crooke Organization: Convio Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wellsian Cc: jimmy martin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: domain name References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In general, if you want to run your own mailserver etc., then doing a bit of background research on DNS would be no bad thing. Do a web search for "Ask Mr DNS", one of the consulting shops had a great FAQ website by than name. Dave wellsian wrote: > > You'll also need to have your DNS provider point an MX record at your > system. This is what tells other systems where to send mail for your > domain. If you've already done this, great. If not, talk to the people you > used for DNS service on your domain. Ideally you can handle the primary MX > on your system and they can handle backup service with a lower MX priority > for when your system is down or unreachable. > > Dave > -- David Crooke, Chief Technology Officer Convio - the online partner for non-profits Tel: (512) 652 2602 - Fax: (512) 652 2699 6300 Bridgepoint Pkwy, Austin TX 78759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message