Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:23:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: FreeBSD ISP List <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: MX and Aliases Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971008165616.9226A-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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Hello, I have a question about MX records and machine aliases. Up until now, we have been running a single server to handle mail, http, and shell accounts. Not the greatest way to do it, but it worked. Now we have a need to split services up. We are planning on running NIS, but we haven't gotten that up and running yet. THe big question is how to separate the mail and shell servers up and have mail go to the correct server. It should be a simple change in the MX records, I think, but this is how we are currently set up, and I was wondering if I could get some ideas thrown my way: tbe.net points to our one machine. When someone mails user@tbe.net, it isn't a problem because the one machine handles it. Now the problem arises if we have mail.tbe.net as one machine and tbe.net as another. If someone mails to user@tbe.net, it will be going to the shell box, not the mail server, but if we set up tbe.net to be the mail server, the mail will come in fine, but anyone who telnets into tbe.net will get the mail server, and there will be no home directories set up there. How do we separate the two machines, while having mail delivered to user@tbe.net rather than having everyone change their email address to reflect a change to user@mail.tbe.net or whatever. (if at all possible) I was thinking a simple MX change as this: tbe.net. IN A 208.208.122.15 localhost.tbe.net. IN A 127.0.0.1 electric.tbe.met. IN A 208.208.122.10 flash.tbe.net. IN A 208.208.122.15 ; ;aliases ; www.tbe.net. IN CNAME flash.tbe.net. pop3.tbe.net. IN CNAME electric.tbe.net. mail.tbe.net. IN CNAME electric.tbe.net. ; ; Mail exchange info ; tbe.net. IN MX 0 electric.tbe.net. tbe.net. IN MX 5 flash.tbe.net. tbe.net. IN MX 10 signals.net. Theoretically, this should work. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 256-4605 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net
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