Re: [IMail Forum] Imail and recursion

[Darin Cox]

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Ok, Bill must have seen that you were trying to do it all on the same box.  You can't do that with MS DNS.  It's recursion on or off period.  You'll need to either set up another server so that you can have one server with recursion on and another with it off, or switch to another DNS server that allows turning off recursion at the domain level.  SimpleDNS is often recommended.  With that setup you turn off recursion for the zones for which you are a nameserver. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail and recursion However, I would recommend the reverse of what you've configured.  Set up your cacheing server on the local IMail machine, and don't allow recursion on your separate nameserver, which I assume responds to DNS queries from the internet.    The nameserver and the IMAIL server are the same box.   The box I'm using for the new caching server is older and not as powerful. I have no plans on moving Imail to the older box, and I don't want to change the nameserver.   So, next best solution, turn off recursion on the IMAIL/nameserver box and point IMAIL to the caching server. Least amount of work, as things stand now.     Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Matrosity Hosting To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail and recursion you can't turn recursion off then Sharyn Schmidt wrote: are you using MS DNS?    yes, on both the current server and the new, caching server.