From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 29 12:38:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04938 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp010-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04928 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA12683; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:37:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199704291937.MAA12683@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: MX records In-Reply-To: from "Stephen A. Derdau" at "Apr 29, 97 02:29:10 pm" To: sderdau@xtdl.com (Stephen A. Derdau) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen A. Derdau said: >Asking a question first time. Not sure if addressing the correct group. >Anyways brief discription of situation. >My network administrator has left . We did not get any documentation >as to how the system is laid etc. I myself am not a network adminis >trator but am finding myself having to learn things pretty quickly. > >My question deals with email to a domain that we do virtual hosting for. >We have the domain name pointing to us however the email part of this >will be pointing do another server at another company. > >If someone could tell me what files I should look into to point any emails >that may come to this domain to the proper servers? > >The person asking me to change this gave me two domains and ip numbers >to where the info should be forwarded to. > >WE are running Freebsd doing uname -v I get. > >FreeBsd 2.1.0-Release # 0.....which may of had modifications to it > from the last administrator regarding updates. > >Well here it goes. > You're best bet is to get DNS and BIND by Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu. It is published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-236-0. Make sure you get the 2nd edition. It should set you back about $35.00. Read the first 4 chapters and look at chapter 5 for a discussion on MX records. Good luck Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@sirius.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses