Re: [cobalt-users] What DNS entries do I need?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Crocker wrote:

> I am fairly new to running a RAQ4 server. Is there a good guide somewhere as
> to exactly what DNS entries I should set up for each site? The previous
> person who managed the server set some up that appear to work but I would
> rather understand what each one does. The RAQ4 manual isn't much help.

Here's what we set up for many of the clients for whom we host DNS:

; NS records
@               IN      NS      ns1.ns-one.net.
@               IN      NS      ns2.ns-one.net.

; MX records
@               IN      MX      10      @
www             IN      MX      10      @

; A records
localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
@               IN      A       12.3.4.56
pop3            IN      A       12.3.4.56
www             IN      A       12.3.4.56
smtp            IN      A       12.3.4.56

; CNAME records
; NONE

> The general situation is that I have a site called aa1.com with aliases
> aa1.co.uk, aa2.com, aa2.co.uk etc. I want the sites to be accessible with or
> without the www prefix, and mail to go to users of the site no matter which
> domain name they use after the @.

Set up zone files like the one above for each of the domains and you
should have all you need with DNS.

You still need to set the RaQ to understand the aliases.

Jeff
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