RE: [cobalt-users] Mail with Subdomain.domain

["1st Web Internet Services" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff & co.,

I have a query regarding your setup here ...... see below for more......

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 4:38 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Mail with Subdomain.domain
>
>
> At 07:58 PM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I am still having complications getting the subdomain mail to
> work properly.
> >This is what I have done.
> >
> >I manually added the subdomains into the zone record.
> >reset the dns from web interface
>
> When you reset the dns from the web interface you most likely delete all
> the changes you made manually to the zone record.
>
> >Added the subdomains to the mail interface via control panel.
> >reset mail from web interface
>
> Are these domains hosted on your machine?
>
> >---
> >Checking Accept mail for the virtual site still doesn't work
> because domain
> >is already accepting mail.  Sending mail to the domains returns
> the generic
> >loopback message.
> >---
>
> What's the name of the virtual site?  What's the name of the
> domain that's
> already accepting mail?  Exactly how do you wish incoming mail for the
> virtual site to be addressed (real example, please, not something like
> user@xxxxxxxxxx if you really want help from me).
>
> >Please pardon my ignorance if I have missed something, but I
> really need to
> >get this issue resolved.  Can someone post clear steps (solution
> based) to
> >this problem.  For those just now tuning in...
>
> I don't think that's possible, being we don't know where your
> system is at now.
>
> >I have 3 domains : subdomain1.generic.com ; subdomain2.generic.com; and
> >subdomain3.generic.com  all of which have been added to the virtual site
> >list. Upon checking accept mail on subdomain1, all subsequent subdomains
> >will not allow this option to be checked.
>
> Okay, let's try one more time.
>
> Answer these questions separately for each site:
>
> What's in the "hostname" field?
>
> What's in the "domain name" field?
>
> presuming I'm a user, and I want my email address to be "jeff",
> what do you
> want my email address to be?
>
> I know for a fact that this can be done on a RaQ2; I just did it.
>
> Three different domains:
>
> domain:      nobaloney.net   jeff.nobaloney.net  mike.nobaloney.net
> IP#:         209.126.157.68  209.126.157.77      209.126.157.77
> hostname:    www             www                 www
> domain name: nobaloney.net   jeff.nobaloney.net  mike.nobaloney.net
> accept mail: checked         checked             checked
>

I notice here that you put www as the host name rather than jeff or mike -
is this the correct way? I am sure it must be, but I thought that the prefix
was the hostname, or am I wrong?

If you set it up as you have done above can you access the sites in a
browser as jeff.nobaloney.net or www.jeff.nobaloney.net? Have you ticked the
box accept web access by domain?

I have a RaQ3 - not sure if that makes a difference, and I also notice that
you have used the same IP for the sub domains but not for the main site - is
there a reason for this, I ask as I am struggling to set up sub domains
myself.

I put

domain:			cifc.org.uk		chat.cifc.org.uk
IP#				216.167.66.219	216.167.66.219
Hostname			www			chat
domain name:		cifc.org.uk		cifc.org.uk
accept mail by domain	not ticked		not ticked	(it says another site is using
this)
access by domain		not ticked		not ticked	(   ---
----            )

When I set this up, I have asked my ISP who looks after the DNS config to
assign the IP to the new site of chat.cifc.org.uk - when he did that if I
entered chat.cifc.org.uk I was met by a page not found error, but if I
entered www.chat.cifc.org.uk I was taken straight to the www.cifc.org.uk,
and it bypassed the index.html page that was set up for it.

I need the ability to set up subdomains without the 'www' bit, although my
ISP calls these machine names - which is confusing me (not hard!) Ideally I
would like to avoid the expense of a new IP for each subdomain.

(all this because it is not possible to have subwebs on a Cobalt RaQ3!)

Any idea how I can take this forward?

Ian