Re: [cobalt-users] everyone.net

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Carey wrote:

> A customer wishes to use everyone.net on his site. I have been asked to set
> up a hostname with a cname to siteurl.everyone.net and an MX  for that
> hostname to sitemail.everyone.net.
> Now I remember reading that the Cobalt does not like using CNAMES for MX
> records.
> 
> How should I set up the DNS so that he can have a hostname of members on the
> site  that then points to sitemail.everyone.net and the MX for that members
> hostname then points to the everyone.net mail server

You do an nslookup on sitemail.everyone.net.  If it's an A record you
just do an MX pointing mail for siteurl.everyone.net pointing to
"sitemail.everyone.net".

If the record for sitemail.everyone.net is a CNAME record, then you do
an MX pointing mail for siteurl.everyone.net pointing to whatever the
CNAME record for sitemail.everyone.net points to.

It doesn't matter at all what kind of record siteurl.everyone.net has.

Jeff
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