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From: soup_or_power on 9 Aug 2006 17:12
Hi
I tried to post this message on comp.protocols.dns.bind but it was
rejected by the moderator.

I am managing 2 domains
membersedgellc.com
scholasticfundinggroup.com

I want to send all the mail addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com to
mail.membersedgellc.com

There is a catch here.
The domain scholasticfundinggroup is registered with Godaddy and hosted
by Teramedia. Godaddy would like me to create thse records

MX 10 smtp.secureserver.net
MX 50 mailstore1.secureserver.net
CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com (64.202.165.92).

However Teramedia wants to create an A record in the place of CNAME, is
that ok?

Also I want to assign a MX record with 0 priority to intercept the mail
addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com as:

MX 0 mail.membersedgellc.com

If we can intercept the mail with the above MX record, then I can see
the mail in my Outlook (Microsoft email reader) along with email
addressed to membersedgellc.com. Is it ok?

I'd appreciate if you can help me out.
Thanks

From: Barry Margolin on 9 Aug 2006 19:37
In article <1155157955.957112.298340(a)b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
soup_or_power(a)yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi
> I tried to post this message on comp.protocols.dns.bind but it was
> rejected by the moderator.

The group for general DNS issues is comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains.

>
> I am managing 2 domains
> membersedgellc.com
> scholasticfundinggroup.com
>
> I want to send all the mail addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com to
> mail.membersedgellc.com
>
> There is a catch here.
> The domain scholasticfundinggroup is registered with Godaddy and hosted
> by Teramedia. Godaddy would like me to create thse records

Is Teramedia hosting the DNS, or just the web site? Who is hosting the
DNS?

>
> MX 10 smtp.secureserver.net
> MX 50 mailstore1.secureserver.net
> CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com (64.202.165.92).
>
> However Teramedia wants to create an A record in the place of CNAME, is
> that ok?

It's not clear what CNAME record you're being asked to create. A CNAME
record is an alias that translates one name to another name, but you
haven't shown the name being translated. I.e. the record should look
something like:

somename CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com.

If they're talking about making the domain name itself be an alias,
that's not allowed.

>
> Also I want to assign a MX record with 0 priority to intercept the mail
> addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com as:
>
> MX 0 mail.membersedgellc.com
>
> If we can intercept the mail with the above MX record, then I can see
> the mail in my Outlook (Microsoft email reader) along with email
> addressed to membersedgellc.com. Is it ok?

That's the normal way to get mail for the domain delivered to that
server.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
From: soup_or_power on 9 Aug 2006 19:51

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <1155157955.957112.298340(a)b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> soup_or_power(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I tried to post this message on comp.protocols.dns.bind but it was
> > rejected by the moderator.
>
> The group for general DNS issues is comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains.
>
> >
> > I am managing 2 domains
> > membersedgellc.com
> > scholasticfundinggroup.com
> >
> > I want to send all the mail addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com to
> > mail.membersedgellc.com
> >
> > There is a catch here.
> > The domain scholasticfundinggroup is registered with Godaddy and hosted
> > by Teramedia. Godaddy would like me to create thse records
>
> Is Teramedia hosting the DNS, or just the web site? Who is hosting the
> DNS?

That would be Teramedia.
>
> >
> > MX 10 smtp.secureserver.net
> > MX 50 mailstore1.secureserver.net
> > CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com (64.202.165.92).
> >
> > However Teramedia wants to create an A record in the place of CNAME, is
> > that ok?
>
> It's not clear what CNAME record you're being asked to create. A CNAME
> record is an alias that translates one name to another name, but you
> haven't shown the name being translated. I.e. the record should look
> something like:
>
> somename CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com.
>
> If they're talking about making the domain name itself be an alias,
> that's not allowed.

Can we use IP address in the place of "somename"? If so, it would be
54.202.165.92


> >
> > Also I want to assign a MX record with 0 priority to intercept the mail
> > addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com as:
> >
> > MX 0 mail.membersedgellc.com
> >
> > If we can intercept the mail with the above MX record, then I can see
> > the mail in my Outlook (Microsoft email reader) along with email
> > addressed to membersedgellc.com. Is it ok?
>
> That's the normal way to get mail for the domain delivered to that
> server.

Many thanks for your reply.

From: Barry Margolin on 9 Aug 2006 21:57
In article <1155167497.147726.272680(a)p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
soup_or_power(a)yahoo.com wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <1155157955.957112.298340(a)b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> > soup_or_power(a)yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I tried to post this message on comp.protocols.dns.bind but it was
> > > rejected by the moderator.
> >
> > The group for general DNS issues is comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains.
> >
> > >
> > > I am managing 2 domains
> > > membersedgellc.com
> > > scholasticfundinggroup.com
> > >
> > > I want to send all the mail addressed to scholasticfundinggroup.com to
> > > mail.membersedgellc.com
> > >
> > > There is a catch here.
> > > The domain scholasticfundinggroup is registered with Godaddy and hosted
> > > by Teramedia. Godaddy would like me to create thse records
> >
> > Is Teramedia hosting the DNS, or just the web site? Who is hosting the
> > DNS?
>
> That would be Teramedia.
> >
> > >
> > > MX 10 smtp.secureserver.net
> > > MX 50 mailstore1.secureserver.net
> > > CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com (64.202.165.92).
> > >
> > > However Teramedia wants to create an A record in the place of CNAME, is
> > > that ok?
> >
> > It's not clear what CNAME record you're being asked to create. A CNAME
> > record is an alias that translates one name to another name, but you
> > haven't shown the name being translated. I.e. the record should look
> > something like:
> >
> > somename CNAME mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com.
> >
> > If they're talking about making the domain name itself be an alias,
> > that's not allowed.
>
> Can we use IP address in the place of "somename"? If so, it would be
> 54.202.165.92

The above CNAME record means "Whenever someone looks up a record for
'somename', return the corresponding record from
mail.scholarsicfundinggroup.com." What would it mean if somename were
replaced with an address? Lookups (except for reverse DNS) start with
names.

If you want to say what the address of mail.scholarsticfundinggroup.com
is, you use an A record, not a CNAME record. Or if you want
mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com to be an alias for some other server,
you can use the following CNAME record:

mail.scholasticfundinggroup.com. CNAME mail.membersedgellc.com.

However, MX records are not supposed to point to aliases, they're
required to point to the primary name, so there's not much need for this
alias.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
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