Re: [cobalt-users] Domain working, mail not....

["Kelly Caldwell" <kelly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just wanted to thank everyone for their input to this....

My lightbulb went off after reading a number of the replies. So, I am a
bonafide idiot;-)

Originally, Gwinnetthome.com was hosted on Mindspring which is the source of
my confusion (I expected them to have the A record, etc.). Now I
understand.....the domain owner had paid $25 to REGISTER.COM to point it to
a domain that was hosted on Mindspring....so, REGISTER.COM DID handle their
original A record with no MX record. So, when the owner requested the
change, I believe they simply pointed it back to my server.....still no MX
record. Well, regardless....we put in a request to change the primary DNS
information and secondary DNS information. I'm sure REGISTER.COM wants to
keep their $25 per year....but tough!!! In the meantime, I think I am going
to see if I can create an MX record on their server that points back to
mine. It definately explains a lot....

Thanks for all the help!

Kelly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 3:12 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Domain working, mail not....


> >
> > Yes, I do. I have 15 sites that are set up nearly identical (with
> > their own
> > IP addresses). All have MX records (and no CNAME records). All of the
mail
> > works except this site. I can even pop into the mail from Outlook
> > Express. I
> > understand that the problem is that the REGISTER.COM is pointing to
their
> > own server, not mine. I am just baffled that the Webpage resolves to
mine!
> >
> Did you check the sites on the register.com DNS server to see what it
says?
> If it's authoritative and has a wrong MX record, that would be the problem
> with mail. It might have the right A record so the web page works.
> --
> Dan Kriwitsky
> 
>
>
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