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[Fwd: Re: [cobalt-users] Newbie DNS ? for own network]


David Lucas wrote:


At 12:01 PM 8/22/2002, you wrote:
The records at register.com are "A" records (by the way, I have the dns disabled on my Raq4r)
You don't really need the mail.nomecity.org. The default at register.com would be nomecity.org and *.nomecity.org. These two entries will cover anything that ends nomecity.org. I have a couple there that do not have the *.domain.com and you can not add them youself. (I personally don't do my mail to a seperate mail.domain.com address - I send my mail to domain.com and list domain.com under alias in the site admin setup)
Thanks Dave for jumping in. Appreciate the help. I've made a few changes to the records at register.com so maybe it will take a couple days to take effect. I do have *.nomecity.org as a record, along with the others... www, mail.
I have two raqs, a dmz raq (www.nomecity.org) for email/web, and a firewalled 'trusted interface' raq named 'green_raq' (not real name) for filesharing.
I have the 'green_raq' set up with DNS internally to provide name service for our local network. I have this raq set up with a Samba share for file sharing on the lan. With DNS, as I understand, it allows for the typing in of say 'green_raq' instead of the ip number under windows explorer for file sharing purposes, network mapping and all. So this is set as a primary dns server and listed so in the win2k boxes under network neighborhood/tcp-ip properties.
So I don't think I want to disable dns on this internal lan server, but I could be wrong.
If you are using the cable company to send, you need nothing in the relay section of the email setup. You need to check your set up of you email and what your cable company takes. It also depends if they require a secure sign in. If so (MSN does) you have to use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express to do email. They will allow you to log in to a pop server and a smtp server with different names. I send mail via my raq and have my static IP that I hit the world with listed as a relay. I also have had my email set up to send via my cable company as the smtp server. Depending on your ISP (cable company) it is all up to what they will allow via their connection. If you use your own server, put the 192.168.1 in the relay section.
Here's some confusion: I'm trying to set up this raq as a email server for our local lan. Our internet access will probably remain with the cable co. for awhile. Right now I'm using their smtp server because we actually have our working email accounts on another ISP, so to send mail (without email accounts with the cable co.) I've configured our email readers (outlook, netscape, and mozilla) to send via the cable co.smtp server. My goal is to get those email accounts onto our own raq- so will I be able to configure this email raq to do its own smtp sending or will I continue to use the cable cos? Or does it matter...
I'm getting error messages in my maillog that say 'hostname lookup failure' for the cable co (gci.net). and when sending a message from the nomecity mail account I set up for myself it says 'domain of sender host jdory@xxxxxxxxxxxx does not resolve.' So I still have some issues.
Here I'm having a problem so I must have something misconfigured. I cannot get mail.nomecity.org to stick after entering it. I hit save changes, and when I go back to see if it took, it is gone. Won't save. Any ideas what to do to rectify? 


Sounds like it has been set up as a separate site.
Don't know. I only have the main site configured for www.nomecity.org.. no virtual sites. 






#  Lastly, go to the SiteAdmin and check SiteSettings to ensure that
  www is 'Host Name', nomecity.org is 'Domain Name' and 'Web
  Server Aliases', and mail.nomecity.org is 'Email Server Aliases'.


Done.
You might have a problem is you have multiple raq's with the same users on them. If you do, you will need one of the more expert to help you. 

I'm using different user names for the email accounts if that helps.
You can only have one primary dns. Best bet would be to point to your providers DNS server.
I'll try this. When I enter any ip address for the primary dns server, regardless of whether it is the local 'green_raq' server or register.com's or the cable co.s, I get a message saying it may not be a good dns server, do I want to use it anyway? I'm thinking maybe my raq is communicating with the world. I can't seem to get it to update software on it's own, which I can with the firewall trusted interface 'green_raq' server. When I try things like 'dig' and lynx and whatnot, it fails. Maybe there in is the problem. I hadn't been thinking about this because I did have the mail working once, then overnight it quit. It was working as a web server however. Not sure why that might have quit, if it did.
Is your dns server behind a firewall also? (If it is really set up as a dns server, it would receive the update from zone updates as your listing at register.com would allow it to propagate to all other dns servers. There is no reason to set anything up on the internal dns server if it is not the primary dns server listed with the registrar of record. I would think that anything set up on it would be overwritten during zone updates as it is not the primary dns server of record.
I tried network-tools.com to resolve your domain name www.nomecity.org and it has problems getting there. 
Does you cable company really allow web serving?  Some block port 80.



Yep, they're good in that respect..
For primary DNS server, most isp's give you a primary and secondary dns servers. If the cable company gave you these, use them here. If they did not give you any, use one of these 
 NS.CW.NET   204.70.128.1
   NS2.CW.NET   204.70.57.242
   NS3.CW.NET   204.70.25.234
   NS4.CW.NET   204.70.49.234
They are listed as being what gci.net uses.



I'll try em.

Gotta run, but be back.. cheers,
Jim D.




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Jim Dory, Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604