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From: "Phillip Smith (mailing list)" <lists@3bags.com>
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Subject: right way to set-up SOA?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:15:37 -0500
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Hiya,

I'm getting some interesting results from dnsreport's tools for checking
my domain's SOA and MX related records... (mind you, everything is
working well)

I'm wondering how, given my scenario, I should set-up the MX record for
my domain (and all the domains I host)

I only have one physical server at the moment which does everyhing: web,
email, etc.

For sub-domains, to same some time, I have a *.domain.com which forwards
all requests for anything anything.domain.com to the correct IP (where
Apache then handles it using VirutalHosts.) But, for the MX record, I'd
like to use mail.domain.com, so I can eventually set-up and migrate all
users to a specific mail server, whithout having to update all the SOA
records. For example, when I set-up a mail server, I'd like to change
one record in domain.com's SOA which says mail.domain.com in A
123.456.78.1 and otherwise, *.domain.com in A 123.456.78.2.

Does this make sense and is their a better, RFC compliant way of doing
this?

p.


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