Re: in the MX record??
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, at 1:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Gee, wouldn't it be handy if there were a lookup table like DNS for all services? If DNS has an HTTP port assigned, go there, otherwise, port 80. Ah, well...) There actually is such a thing in DNS: SRV (Service) records. But they are relatively new, and almost nothing recognizes them. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
in the MX record??
I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the MX record in DNS set to point to their exchange server? Or does the MX record point to my server which redirects via SendMail config? The exchange server has only a dedicated IP address. Jason Kern ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: in the MX record??
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jason Kern wrote: I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the MX record in DNS set to point to their exchange server? Or does the MX record point to my server which redirects via SendMail config? The exchange server has only a dedicated IP address. As long as their mail server has an IP address that is directly accessible from the WAN, having the MX record point to it should work. If the target system has a valid hostname that one can retrieve by doing a reverse lookup on the IP address, then use that in the MX record - if not, use any A record name that points to that IP address. CNAMEs should not be used in MX records. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: in the MX record??
You could certainly do it either way you outline, but by far the easiest would be to simply have the MX record point to their mail server. No reason not to do it that way -- since it's pretty much the only time that DNS allows you to separate out a service based on IP, and you might as well take advantage of it. (Gee, wouldn't it be handy if there were a lookup table like DNS for all services? If DNS has an HTTP port assigned, go there, otherwise, port 80. Ah, well...) -Ken I will be hosting a site for someone who has an exchange server set up locally. Mail traffic for the domain needs to end up at that server rather than be hosted on my web server (sendmail). Can I just have the MX record in DNS set to point to their exchange server? Or does the MX record point to my server which redirects via SendMail config? The exchange server has only a dedicated IP address. Jason Kern ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
