From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 17:28:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zugzug.hq.newdream.net (zugzug.hq.newdream.net [216.246.35.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7417F37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:28:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20205 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2000 01:28:19 -0000 Received: from jazz.hq.newdream.net (HELO hq.newdream.net) (216.246.35.141) by zugzug.hq.newdream.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 2000 01:28:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3A25AE48.4E19AC74@hq.newdream.net> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:32:56 -0800 From: Will Yardley Organization: New Dream Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Reber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Domain Name setup References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001129195529.00b05760@netdepot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG personally i'd do it like this: i'd avoid using CNAMEs at all when possible. -w > @ IN SOA ns1.centralinfo.net. sreber.atltechgroup.com. ( 2000082918 ; serial number 14400 ; refresh 3600 ; retry 2419200 ; expire 86400 ) ; minimum > IN NS ns1.centralinfo.net. > IN NS ns2.centralinfo.net. > IN A 63.105.24.23 > IN MX 0 @ > mail IN A 63.105.24.23 > ftp IN A 63.105.24.23 > heorot IN A 63.105.24.23 > www IN A 63.105.24.23 > > The should only be one A record per address, the rest should be > CNAMEs. Only names should have a period after them (not addresses). The > name specified in the MX record must be directly resolvable via an A record. > > At 11/28/00 03:42 PM +0000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > Any one know of a good guide for setting up domain names? I've got > >www.1nova.com which seems to sometimes work fine, but some people have > >problems sending stuff to it or getting to www.1nova.com/freebsd yet > >something like heorot.1nova.com works just fine. I've got MX records for > >mail, ftp, www, heorot all setup... So I don't know what else I'm > >missing. Thanks in advance! > > > > Rick > > > >******************************************************************* > >Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > >Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware > >***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > > ___________________________________________________________ > Scott Reber > AtLANta TEChnical Group, Inc. > sreber@atltechgroup.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message