Re: [cobalt-users] Different IP address for domain mail & website

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:11 am, Nancy Montano wrote:
> We have a request from one of the web sites we host to do the following:
>
> They want us to point the domain website to another IP address but they
> want us to continue to host their domain mail on our servers.  We have
> tried several things but the mail will not work.  We have a RAQ2 cobalt
> server.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Nancy Montano

Not sure about the RAQ2 specifically, but we do this for several domains 
(split mail/web).

  You will need either an A record or a CNAME in DNS for the www (web) and 
one for the "mail" and/or smtp.

  Remove the web settings from the Cobalt but leave the mail settings - EG: 
no Web Server aliases and it should work.

  Key factor is that DNS (yours or whoever does DNS for this domain) is 
"correct" as to which IP it gives out for which service (web/mail).

Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
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