Re[2]: [cobalt-users] what is the right way to set of dns

[Richard Kurth <rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tony,

Saturday, September 16, 2000, 2:12:27 PM, you wrote:

T> This works for us:

T> A record: domain.com > 111.111.111.111
T> A record: www.domain.com > 111.111.111.111
T> PTR:      111.111.111.111 > domain.com
T> PTR:        111.111.111.111 > www.domain.com
T> A record: mail.domain.com > 111.111.111.111
MX: domain.com >> mail.domain.com

T> For the catch-all alias add  ' @domain.com '
T> to the user that should get all stray email. 

T> Have your users use mail.domain.com for both their
T> POP & SMTP settings in their mail client if you have
T> the POPbeforeSMTP pkg installed. 

T> Double check the Main e-mail server settings in Control Panel
T> to be sure that domain.com, the IP and www.domain.com were auto 
T> entered in the appropriate places.



>> What is the right way to set up dns on a rag3 so that you can get
>> email for whatever@xxxxxxxxxx and whatever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx every thing
>> that people have told me doesn't seem to work I can get mail for
>> www.domain.com but not for domain.com.. I have tried
>> 
>>  A record set for domain.com which points to ip
>>  A record set for www.domain.com which points to ip
>>  PTR record for ip which points to domain.com
>>  MX record for domain.com which points to www.domain.com
>> 
>> also adding
>> MX record for www.domain.com which points to www.domain.com
>> 
>> The funny thing is this used to work in tell I did all the new updates
>> did cobalt brake my server again with untested updates

   I set it up like you wrote and it still does not work the mail comes
   back with    info is set up as an ales

    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to northwesthost.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<<< 550 <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown
550 <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown




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Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx