The best doc IMO is DNS and Bind from O'Reilly. If you are goiung to
be administering DNS suggest you buy it.
I assume you have a server that does DNS for the zone called
"systematic.lan".
If you are using Bind, add to the zone file after the ORIGIN statment
(or the @ symbol) a record like:
IN MX 10 mail
then, if necessary, add an A record for the mail server.
mail IN A ip.address.of.machine
It will end up something like:
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA dns.systematic.lan. domainadmin.systematic.co.za. (
17 ; serial
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expire
3600 ) ; default
IN NS dns
IN MX 10 mail
mail IN A 192.168.12.69
<etc...>
IF you are using Windoes, select "New Mail Exchanger" and fill in the
values. Make sure there is an A record for the mail server.
Do NOT point an MX name to a CNAME record ("Alias" on Windoes). You
have been warned!
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Trevor Fraser wrote:
- Hello Stephen,
-
- I've done some work on our DNS server, but I am unfimiliar with "a valid MX
- record". How do I go about this, or if you prefer, do you know of a nice
- doc on the subject.
-
- Thanks, Trevor.
-
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: "Stephen Carville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- To: "Trevor Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:27 PM
- Subject: Re: Sending mail from LAN.
-
-
- > Set up your DNS server to return a valid MX record for systematic.lan.
- >
- > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Trevor Fraser wrote:
- >
- > - Hello all.
- > -
- > - I've managed to sort out sending mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- ,
- > - many thanks to all who replied. This mailling list is worth more than
- > - gold...every tried getting support from the present leading software
- > - developers....fat chance you little drop in the ocean!!! Just give a
- > - though for what we've got going here guys and girls.
- > -
- > - Sorry for the side track, I just rerealised how blessed Linux users are.
- > -
- > - The problem now is that our LAN domain doesn't exist on the internet,
- and
- > - our mail-server only accepts mail from existing domains. How do I send
- mail
- > - from an existing domain, or at least appear to be?
- > -
- >
- > --
- > -- Stephen Carville
- > UNIX and Network Administrator
- > DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services)
- > 310-342-3602
- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
-
--
-- Stephen Carville
UNIX and Network Administrator
DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services)
310-342-3602
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
