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

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> 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
> Best regards,
>  Richard                            mailto:rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>

IMHO your dns currently looks fine.  I think what you want to do is add
mail.northwesthost.com to the host/aliases box located in the gui at
control-panel>E-mail settings and then press save and save again at the
control panel window.

Zeffie