Hi everyone We've got a terrible disaster: Our American ISP vanished from the surface of this earth and all name server records of our domain point to a non functional server. We highly depend on a working mail system and I quickly need to set up a temporary solution.
I think of changing our name server entries at Verisign so that they point to our windows 2000 server behind our Gnatbox. Our Windows 2000 DNS server is then supposed to function as our primary name server and should serve external requests with our own A and MX record entries (with the mx record for example pointing to the gnatbox mail proxy). I am not very experienced with this and don't know whether this would work at all. I have also created a new host entry for our domain at Verisign which gives a name to our Gnatbox External Interface IP address, because currently our ip addresses are not registered at all. The last peace of information missing (if this whole structure works) would be the ports and protocols I need to open up in order to allow for external name server requests. Also, what security problems will I be facing? I would be very grateful for any tips, hints or even better suggestions. VERY IMPORTANT: please don't hit reply, because then you'll reply to that non existent ISP. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot for helping me out with this nightmare Marc Suxdorf Studios f�r Design Milchstrasse 6b D-20148 Hamburg Tel +49 (40) 41345-100 Fax +49 (40) 41345-101 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
