Re: [cobalt-users] MX records and off-server mail servers

["Steve Buza" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Good information in this post, but the question really needs the answer
> "Buy a copy of 'Bind & DNS.'"  It is a DNS specific issue, > not a RaQ
> issue.
> >
> > OTOH I don't want to start up that whole discussion of appliance vs.
> server again.
> >
> > Steve

<snip>

> Now, I am learning a little more, but unfortunately there is SO much to
learn,
> so little time to do so, and in the middle are my customers who aren't
going
> to necessarily wait for me to read a 500 page book.

Actually it should have been "DNS and BIND" by O'Reilly which is an
indespensible resource.  As I said your post had good information, and
concisely lays out what to do.  Still, the answer SHOULD include some
reference to buying a copy of DNS and BIND and reading it.

> things work. So, having an example to solve the problem lets one
understand
> that much more about the way things intereact on a RaQ, something that is
> poorly documented in "the wild", and get that "baptism by fire" knowledge
> that is priceless.

Agreed.

> For what its worth, my PRIMARY place to start research on a topic is
> the archives

Agreed.  Since this is going in the archives:

*** Buy a copy of DNS and BIND and read it. ***

And maybe I'll get less Lame Server log errors :)

> That's what this summary was - my posting the summary of 10
> different threads, all with the same problem and no real resolution.

As I said the post had good information.  Perhaps I should have
said, your post should have _included_ some reference to getting
a copy of DNS and BIND.  I didn't mean to suggest that the
information was not valuable.

> Rick

Cheers.
Steve