Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Questions

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:

> > can someone please give me a basic DNS setup for a website on a raq3.  I
> > cant get my mail to work right.. even the demos from cobalt.
> >
> > I want  people to be able to access: mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com on
> > example ip 1.1.1.1
> > and i want them to check and send mail through mail.mydomain.com
> >
> > what are all the records I should have and what should they be?
> >
> This gives a good explanation if you're handling your own DNS:
> 
> http://teamcobalt.interliant.com/faqs/domaindns.shtml

Because we're lazy and like to reuse files when we can, here's what we
do for sites we host on shared IP#:

@               IN      A       xxx.aaa.bbb.ccc
www             IN      A       xxx.aaa.bbb.ccc
@               IN      MX      www
pop             IN      CNAME   www
ftp             IN      CNAME   www


And aside from the SOA record and the NS record, that's it.

Why? you ask.

Because that way we can use the same file for every domain.  Why do we
use "pop" and not "smtp" and not "mail"?  Because we don't want to give
our users the impression they can send outgoing email through our
servers.

Jeff
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