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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:14 PM 3/16/00 +0000, you wrote:

> The zone record for cifc.org.uk reads
>
>  cifc.org.uk.                    IN      MX      0       mail
>  ;
>  ; hosts in order
>  ;
>  localhost                       IN      A       127.0.0.1
>  cifc.org.uk.                    IN      A       216.167.66.219
>  www                             IN      A       216.167.66.219
>  mail                            IN      A       216.167.66.219
>  pop                             IN      A       216.167.66.219
>  smtp                            IN      A       216.167.66.219
>  ftp                             IN      A       216.167.66.219
>  www.chat                        IN      A       216.167.66.219
>
>
> I assume the last one should read chat rather than www.chat - or is it not
> that simple :-)

You really should have two, one for "www.chat" and one for "chat".  There 
are people who will try you both ways.

You also should have NS records.

Here's what a whois check shows as your nameservers:

Domain servers listed in order:

  NS1.DN.NET  206.43.192.76
  NS2.DN.NET  206.197.81.10

So, considering that, after the line:

>  www.chat                        IN      A       216.167.66.219

add these three lines:

chat            IN      A       216.167.66.219
cifc.org.uk.    IN      NS      ns1.dn.net.
cifc.org.uk.    IN      NS      ns2.dn.net.

Actually the NS records may already be in there, just not in the lines that 
DigitalNation sent you (the did NOT send you the entire zone file).  When I 
do an nslookup on sifc.org.uk, here's what I get:

> [admin admin]$ nslookup
> Default Server:  ns1.ns-one.net
> Address:  209.126.152.18
>
> > set querytype=SOA
> > cifc.org.uk
> Server:  ns1.ns-one.net
> Address:  209.126.152.18
>
> cifc.org.uk
>         origin = ns1.dn.net
>         mail addr = dnsadmin.dn.net
>         serial = 2000030102
>         refresh = 14400 (4H)
>         retry   = 3600 (1H)
>         expire  = 604800 (1W)
>         minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
> cifc.org.uk     nameserver = ns1.dn.net
> cifc.org.uk     nameserver = ns2.dn.net
> cifc.org.uk     nameserver = ns3.dn.net
> ns1.dn.net      internet address = 206.43.192.76
> ns2.dn.net      internet address = 206.197.81.10
> ns3.dn.net      internet address = 206.197.81.11

So you may not have to add the NS records; they may already be there.  Ask 
the DNS gurus at DigitalNation to be sure.

> What changes to I need to request to enable http://www.chat.cifc.org.uk to
> be visible as http://chat.cifc.org.uk? I have tried the entries above and
> they all default straight to cifc.org.uk for example mail.cifc.org.uk
> diverts automatically to cifc.org.uk, obviously I wish to avoid this if we
> make www.chat to just chat. The site is currently set up correctly in the
> GUI.

By "correctly" I hope you mean according to my example.

Let's get the changes I enumerate above to the zone file propagated before 
we do anything else.

For most of us, that'll take 24 hours; as you can see above, DigitalNation 
has set your mimimum ttl to 24 hours.

Once that's done and the 24 hours have passed, notify me again (offlist 
perhaps) and I'll see what I can get to.  We'll go on from there.

Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>