Re: [cobalt-users] Separate Servers for Web & Email

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Achieve IT wrote:

> Hello,
> This follows on from a previous thread I started, "550 Host Unknown".
>
> I have a new client for whom I will be setting up a website. The client
> already has an ISP that does all thier email & web hosting. However, this
> ISP does not offer PHP, which we will be using to develop the site, and thus
> we will be using my RaQ4 server to host the website ONLY.
>
> I already have a similar situation setup with another client, but when I try
> to do this for my new customer, I have problems with sending email to the
> customers domain. The DNS records for the customer I have setup sucessfully
> are below: Am I missing some thing?
>
> (Address A Record) domain.com     ->     212.67.197.38 (My Primary IP
> address)
> (Address A Record) mail.domain.com ->  xxx.xx.xxx.xxx (Existing ISP Mail
> Server Address)
> (Address A Record) www.domain.com     ->     212.67.197.38 (My Primary IP
> address)
> (MX Record)domain.com      mail is sent to high priority server
> mail.domain.com
> (MX Record) www.domain.com     mail is sent to high priority server
> mail.domain.com
>

  Is the client's ISP doing DNS.
  If you do 'dig client.tld'
  Are the client's nameservers, yours or his ISP.
  You could go to http://dnsreport.com and test

Gerald
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