Well! A long list of questions... :-)
Rajil Saraswat forced the electrons to say:
> There are two servers ns1.biet.ac.in (name server)
> mail.biet.ac.in (mail server)
> How do i configure the name server, so that all the mail is stored on
> mail.biet.ac.in which need not be a real internet IP address(or should it be
> real??).
The name server should be the primary name server for the domain
biet.ac.in. I hope you have been successful in setting up the
nameserver. Also, you need an MX record in your nameserver configuration
that points to the name of the machine that will receive mails for you.
One thing you have to make sure is that your MX should be an A record. The
RFCs say so, IIRC. MX cannot be a CNAME.
If you have two IP addresses, make one of them the primary MX, and the
other the secondary MX.
> where should the pop3 server be running?.
On the machine where the mails are stored. Maybe the machine that is
your mail exchanger.
> suppose i have a user on
> mail server as [EMAIL PROTECTED], will the name server forward all the mail
> to mail server.
No, the name server will just tell the MTA who is trying to send you
mails that 'mails for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be accepted by the machine
whose name is mail.biet.ac.in'.
> what about MX records, do i need to deal with them.
Of course. Being primary DNS and MX for a domain is a full time sysadmin
job.
> to be
> precise what changes do i have to make to get the server running, currently
> i have postfix, pop3 server running.
A broad list would be:
configure DNS.
test DNS both ways - forward and reverse
configure MTA
test MTA
configure other servers (POP, IMAP...)
test them.
Tell you what - get a good book on system administration - O'Reilly has a
few - and read through it. Test every change you make thoroughly, and
keep a log of all changes that you make. Whenever in trouble, get back
here. DNS/MX administration of an entire domain is no cakewalk, I can
assure you.
Binand
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