> Seeing how vital this "A record" entry into the DNS console is, its > not something I figured I should be passing on to some other > company.
Even though we are mail systems integrators, we have no fear of passing our DNS information on for hosting at Nominum, one of the most respected names in the entire DNS world--they are the authors of BIND, and far more respected in that regard than we are! Same goes for Scott's company, absolute gurus with mail, who do not object to using outsourced DNS. It's only a matter of how reputable your outsourcer is. Nothing wrong with passing on such responsibility, so long as you are given a nice management interface and non-stop availability. > And even if I had a "revelation" that these "A record" and "MX > records" should be entered on some third party server, I wouldn't > know how to enter such records on a third party server. They would teach you, believe me. Yet we have def'ly veered off-topic, as you pointed out earlier. If you're authoritative for your domain, and you only use your server for authoritative lookups, it will work even though it is crazily hosed. Take our advice re: hosting or leave it, it doesn't matter. But your server WILL NOT WORK AS A DNS SERVER FOR IMAIL. We're going around and around on this. Find a reliable public DNS server, or carefully document the unreliability of UUNet's servers and see if you can pressure them into a fix (doubtful, since they're bankrupt). Sometimes-broken servers in the mix make it more likely that your always-broken local server will eventually be tried, and when that happens, mail will always fail HARD. -Sandy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
