RE: [cobalt-users] looking at a site before domain is transferred

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alfredo wrote:
>"Okay, first thing, Carrie. The A record for the test site should be
>for site to IP ONLY. Just one A record -- no reverse record. No
>name-based virtual should need a reverse record and it's going to
>confuse the dns because you now have one IP pointing to two different
>sites."

Egads, Batman. I must have a very confoozled DNS server. I had reverse
lookups for all of my name-based sites!
I just went in and took out the PTR records for them. So now what I have is
(use one of my client's sites for example)
thebirthingwomb.com --> 208.155.66.219
www.thebirthingwomb.com --> 208.155.66.219

I left it like that so that it can be reached with or without the www. In
the
site administrator interface it has a web alias section, and says anything
there
should be in DNS as well. So I left them.
Should I only have 'www.thebirthingwomb.com' and not the one without the
www?

>"Oh yeah, by the way, I personally stay way far away from Cnames on a
>Raq. They're not necessary for this and they can cause lots of
>problems."
I've heard other people say this too. Tonight was the first time I added a
Cname,
because of those instructions. Made me nervous because I've seen so many
people say
don't do it.  :)

All of your other instructions were great, except for the following part. I
think it might be
the difference between a RaQ3 and RaQ4. On my RaQ4, there aren't checkboxes
for these.
>When you make your name change, UNCHECK the boxes for "Accept email
>for domain" and "web access by domain". I know that's obvious but I
>screw that up all the time so I just mention it.
In the Site Administration there's an email alias section, that's about as
close as I get. Then
I have to add the MX record in the DNS setting and it sets the records in
the Email Server settings for me.
I have a picture of what the site administration looks like on the RaQ4 if
you want to take a look:
http://www.bardbrain.com/bardsite.jpg
If you want screen shots of anything else just let me know and I'll whip 'em
up for you. (That goes for
anyone curious about the subtle differences in RaQ4's...)

>I hope that's not more confusing than what confused you.
No, it was very clear! Thank you so much.
Now if I just had time to put sites up for all of these domain names of mine
I've gathered over the years... ;)

Carrie