On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:21:17AM -0700, Max B wrote: Those strings could be anything you like -- it's just the name of the machine that you want mail to be sent to. Your MX record(s) will look something like: mydomainname.com. MX 5 hermes.mydomainname.com. i.e. "mail for mydomainname.com should go to hermes.mydomainname.com, with priority 5" (larger priority values are less important). You then need an ordinary A record for hermes.mydomainname.com that gives its IP address: hermes.mydomainname.com. A 10.0.0.1 This IP address should accept incoming SMTP mail on port 25. I'm using "hermes" here only as an example. You can use any name you like ("smtp", "mail" and "hermes" are common ones). Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- You stay in the theatre because you're afraid of having no --- money? There's irony...

Hello, On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Andy Bennett wrote: MX records expect a hostname on the right hand side. Entering an IP address would usually result in it expecting a host called "1.2.3.4.example.com" if you tried "1.2.3.4" as the IP in the zone file for "example.com". So don't do that. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "I remember the first time I made love. Perhaps it was not love exactly but I made it and it still works." -- The League Against Tedium

Hi Andy, my domain registry is with godaddy.com. They do offer a control panel with lots of different settings. Looks like a perl script to /etc/ bridge. There are all kinds of CNAME aliases, and I'm not too sure whether I can/should/ought to delete them because they refer to machines on secureserver.net, or to replace them with my own virtual addresses, or some other alternative with less hassle. Any thoughts would be welcome. Cheers, Max ________________________________ From: Andy Bennett <andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org> To: Max B <txtmax(a)yahoo.ca> Cc: users(a)lists.bitfolk.com Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 5:21:14 PM Subject: Re: [bitfolk] mx without bind? Hi, Who is your domain registered with? Some registries will have a control panel where you can set up the MX record. If this is the case then you can insert the IP address of your VPS as the target of the MX record and then mail should start getting delivered to port 25 on that machine. Regards, @ndy -- andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ 0x7EBA75FF

Hi Andy, last question first - what I hope to accomplish with exoco.net is a rudimentary web page (which is currently visible) and a private email service. The email is not-quite-there-yet, but with help from this listserv I hope to be able to send, receive, forward, digest, and otherwise manipulate my email from/to various usernames(a)exoco.net. The www server was up first late last week. The root(a)username.vps.bitfolk.com email has accepted email since Friday. The godaddy nameserver was set up over the weekend and now has ns.exoco.net and a.authns.bitfolk.com (etc) active. I have no problem in theory with breaking stuff as long as I can eventually recover. That's one way to learn. Granted, I have taken 7 days to learn something I didn't want to learn, but things seem always to be sub-optimal with IT. Right now I think I have bind and reverse dns setups that work. Now all I need is to have the root(a)exoco.net respond. I'll attend to that in another email. Cheers, Max ________________________________ From: Andy Bennett <andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org> To: Max B <txtmax(a)yahoo.ca> Cc: users(a)lists.bitfolk.com Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 10:54:08 AM Subject: Re: [bitfolk] mx without bind? Hi, Well, it depends on whether you're using them. ;-) Usually, when you register a domain with someone like godaddy.com or 123reg, they do 4 things: 1) Primary DNS 2) Secondary DNS 3) MX 4) Web "forwarding" the CNAME aliases and other things will be related to how (3) and (4) are set up. Usually (4) is set up to go to a "holding" page. Sometimes it can be set up to load a frame containing some other URL to make it look like your website is now hosted on that domain. If you've set up a web server then you'll have pointed (at least) the www record at your webserver with either your own CNAME or A record. (3) is usually set up to forward mail to another address. If you've paid more money then they might host a mailbox for you. If you want to delegate to your own machine then you'll have to point the MX records at your own mailserver, much like you would do for case (4). If you don't understand what these records are for then you should proceed with caution: setting up your own nameserver (as you suggest in your other mails) will certainly break *all* of that unless you take steps to replicate the setup in your zone file. The registry provides (1) and (2) by delegating the zone, to their nameservers, in the (in the case of exoco.net) .net zone. If you want to run your own nameservers then you need to instruct godaddy (usually via their control panel) to redelegate the zone to your nameservers. What are you currently doing with exoco.net? You need to make sure you replicate as much of the current zone as you need before you start hosting it for yourself otherwise some things might stop working... Regards, @ndy -- andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ 0x7EBA75FF _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users