Re: [cobalt-users] Getting Mail working for virtual host

[Rick Boucher <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Thanks for all the help.  I knew I was asking a base question and things
seem to be working better now.  Couple of follwup questions.

1.  I was told that I should not put an A record for orcasonline.com in my
spritnw.com zone file. I checked the file, which was all generated by the
Cobalt Admin scripts, and the only reference to orcasonline.com were two NS
records.

spiritnw.com in NS ns3.orcasonline.com
spiritnw.com in NS ns1.orcasonline.com

This appears in dig spiritnw.com  in the authority section.

there is then an additional section, in the dig spiritnw.com, which has

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.orcasonline.com.    12H IN A        204.201.135.130
ns3.orcasonline.com.    12H IN A        204.201.136.62

I tried dig amazon.com and the report was similar.  So I am stumped as to
how the cobalt admin script created a sloppy zone file.  I want it right and
perfect not sloppy.

Below is the zone file for spiritnw.com as produced by the cobalt admin
scripts

[root admin]# cat /etc/named/pri.spiritnw.com
$TTL 86400
spiritnw.com. IN SOA ns3.orcasonline.com. admin.cascade.orcasonline.com. (
        2001050211
        10800
        3600
        604800
        86400
        )
spiritnw.com.   IN      NS      ns3.orcasonline.com.
spiritnw.com.   IN      NS      ns1.orcasonline.com.
; End SOA Header
;
; Do Not edit BIND db files directly.
; Use the administrative web user interface
; /admin/ -> Control Panel -> DNS Parameters
; Custom additions may be made by creating a file of the same name as this
but
; with a; .include suffix.  Click Save Changes in the DNS web interface and
; the inclusion will be made.
; 
mail.spiritnw.com.      in      a       204.201.136.3
spiritnw.com.   in      a       204.201.136.3
spiritnw.com.   in      mx      30 mail.spiritnw.com.
www.spiritnw.com.       in      a       204.201.136.3



So help me out here.  Mail does work now. But what is the proper way to do
it?

Rick Boucher
OrcasOnline. com Admin
 

on 4/27/01 1:33 AM, Simon Watts at simon@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm new to Raq management, and have no prior experience with either LiNUX or
> UNiX, but
> I'll have a pop!
> 
> I also have a RAQ4 and was slightly confused when it came to installing my
> first few
> domains onto my box!
> The problem I found was that the instructions given to me by my RAQ providor
> seemed
> different to the documentation within the Cobalt user manual. This confused
> me somewhat!
> So I set 2 up, one following th eguidelines in the cobalt docs, the other
> following the
> instructions from my RAQ providor. Low and behold, the one that worked was
> the one from my
> providor!
> 
> For the virtual site I set up DNS enries as follows;
> IP address = my RAQ IP
> A record for domain.com = IP address
> A record for host name "www" for domain.com = IP address
> A record for host name "mail" for domain.com = IP address
> MX record for domain.com with mail server entry of mail.domain.com (leaving
> host blank)
> 
> I then set up the virtual site with the following entries;
> IP Adress = IP address
> Host Name ="www"
> Domain Name = "domain.com"
> Web server Aliases = "domain.com"
> EMail server Aliases = "domain.com"
> 
> For clients wishing to have "catch all" the email alias for the user gets
> set to;
> @www.domain.com
> These entries contradict the cobalt manual, but they work! well they do for
> me!
> 
> 
>> Having a terrible time getting mail working for a Virtual Domain On
>> my new Raq4.
>> 
>> I have primary domain cascade.orcasonline.com setup. It is the admin
> domain.
>> 
>> 
>> I have a virtual domain setup (on a different ip) spiritnw.com set up
>> with www.spiritnw.com (I'd actually like o use mail.spiritnw.com)
>> I have an MX record setup  mapping spiritnw.com to www.spiritnw.com
>> as the example shows.
>> 
>> I send mail to user@xxxxxxxxxxxx and it bounces with the folowing:
>> 
>> 
>> Any help would be much appreciated.  Got many many domains to move to
>> my New RaQ4 and need this solved.
>> 
>> --
>> Rick Boucher
>> Webmaster
>> San Juan Web  (360) 376-6411
>> http://www.sanjuanweb.com -- The information source for the San Juan
> Islands
> 
> Regards
> 
> Si Watts
> Owner; SiWIS
> http://www.siwis.com
> 
> 
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