Re: [cobalt-users] DNS issues - Moving A Site to another server

["ISEE Multimedia" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> IM> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:05:18 -0000
> IM> From: ISEE Multimedia
> 
> 
> IM> Could you be a bit more specific on the slave / master issue
> 
> On a RaQ4:
> 
> Control Panel > Services > DNS Server Parameters
> 
> Pull down the "Add..." listbox and choose "Secondary Nameservice
> for Domain".  Enter the domain in question and the IP address of
> the master nameserver.
> 
> Now the newly-configured slave will pull the zones from the
> master.  There should be one and only one master.
> 
> 
> IM> as well as the email?
> 
> Say your server thinks it's the MX for the domain in question.
> It will try to deliver mail locally unless you synchronize the
> list of email addresses with your client.  It's better just to
> configure your system as a backup MX, or to let your client
> handle the mail entirely.
> 
> Alternatively, you could provide mail service.  In this case,
> your client would need to avoid local handling of the domain's
> mail.
> 
> 
> IM> both servers have MX records, i take it this is incorrect?
> 
> Can you provide (on- or off-list) specifics?  If you're running
> master DNS on both, that's an error in and of itself.  If you
> configured both servers as MXes, that may or may not be correct.
> 
> 
> Eddy
> --

Hi Eddy,

Can you email me offlist so I can reply with details.

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Mark