Scott,
How do I look up mx records? How do you look up a records? Cname
records? I have asked the place that is hosting my server and
they have avoided the question 3 times.
Here is the domain I am having problems with and my layout. Since
my layout is the same on all of the domains I host, I assume that
I have problems with all of them and I have just not noticed it
yet.
I have an A record on chasegloablservices.com
There is suppose to be an mx record pointing to
chaseglobalservices.com which I have set up as the official host
name through Imail. I also have mail.chaseglobalservices.com
setup as a Host Alias through Imail. And this is set up as a
virtual host.
I also have requested that an MX record and a CName be created
with mail.chaseglobalservices.com. From your comments this will
not work right?
So what should the proper layout be?
A record for chaseglobalservices.com
A record for mail.chaseglobalservices.com <-- can you do this?
MX record for chaseglobalservices.com
MX record for mail.chaseglobalservices.com
no cname records?
am I missing any records?
What you have said makes more sense then anything I have heard so
far. I would appreciate anything else you could add since it
sounds like you are pushing me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Bill Kaigler
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:40:55 -0500
>> I had the company I am hosting with make sure that the proper MX
>> records were created. They said they always found that an MX
>> record with mail.servername.com was better then servername.com
>> and usually had less problems.
>
>Nope, they're wrong. It's fine to have an MX record for both
mail.servername.com and servername.com. But, if you don't have an
MX record for servername.com, you can't expect to get mail
addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If there is an A record, a mail
server might send to it. But without an MX record, you're letting
the remote mail server decide whether or not you deserve to get
mail.
>
>If you're talking about the domain affiniscape.com, your problem
is that your MX record points to a CNAME, which won't work with
many mail servers (one RFC says it is illegal to point to a CNAME,
although I think I recall that another one makes it legal --
either way, many mail servers will choke on that).
>
>
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