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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:48, Achieve IT wrote:
> >   The point I was trying to make is that you shouldn't try to admin
> >   the DNS unless your nameserver is the registed nameserver for the
> >   domain.
> > Gerald
>
> O.K. So should I not enter any DNS information into the Control Panel, but
> rather tell the existing ISP to change the Address A Records to my RAQ4 IP
> Address?
> Declan.

It gets a little convoluted, but YES!
If all the ISP is going to do is handle the email, then;
The ISP should change his records;

domain.tld should point to your server
host.domain.tld should point to your server
and the MX record should point to his server.

Gerald
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