Re: [cobalt-users] newbie DNS help needed

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DotCom Production wrote:

> I'm getting some weird conflicts trying to use one of our RaQ's as a name
> server:
> Here's my ( overly wordy <g>) question:
> If I have a client being hosted on RaQ "A"... and their email is being
> hosted by them on their in house server... and I am using RaQ "B" as name
> server and having the A records point to RaQ "A" - Do I setup the MX records
> that point to the clients mail server on RaQ "A" , RaQ "B", or both A & B?

You should have one primary DNS server and you may have a secondary DNS
server.  For the purpose of this reply, I'll presume that RaQ B is your
primary DNS server.  If that is correct than what you do is set up an A
record for the client's inhouse server, for example:

mail.clientsdomain.com.    IN   A  123.123.123.123

where 123.123.123.123 in the IP# of the client's inhouse server.

Then you create an mx record pointing the client's email to that server:

clientsdomain.com.  IN MX 10 mail.clientsdomain.com.

Jeff
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