Re: [cobalt-users] Fw: dns and email questions

[Webmaster <webmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

At 07:28 03/07/00 +1000, you wrote:
>I have a box set up with, for now, I believe, both primary and secondary
>DNS. At least that is what my system shows in the GUI system page. These are
>on sep IP's.
>
>I have gone into the GUI DNS properties and put in A records (with reverse
>PTRs) for my DNS files - web.ozdns.net & web2.ozdns.net and have added
>www.ozdns.net & ozdns.net - I have sites defined that I can resolve
>successfully - first stage ok.
>
>Now how do I ensure that my secondary dns (web2.ozdns.net) gets updated with
>this information and any subsequent domains I add (either virtual ip based
>or virtual name based). I am confused in the GUI between add secondary for
>domain and add secondary for IP or whether I need to add anything at all.
>All my changes seem to be hitting the primary  ok  but are they hitting the
>secondary(?) - how do I create the records in the secondary (through the GUI
>preferably) - or is that happening automatically ?
>
>(In the near future I will be looking for someone with a single machine  to
>act as a secondary for me and I will act as a secondary for them - my
>question then will be how to specify that this external secondary DNS is
>updated automatically every time I add a domain)
>

If you have only one physical server, then there is only one(primary) dns
server. The IP of the secondary is just an alias for the primary one.

>I want to be able to set up an email redirect for a domain delegated to my
>dns without setting up a virtual site for the domain. I would like to be
>able to setup specific redirects as well as a catchall for all that's left
>after the specific redirects - is this posiible - will I need to set up a
>site ?

Since you said you are new to this, I suggest you to create a virtual site
and follow to set up e-mails rather than going hard way in the beginning;
and you hardly lose much by doing so.


Best regards,
Babu P. Yogarajah

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