- DNS for emails... aliasing
- Posted by SpaceGirl on March 14th, 2006
Hi all.
DNS question!
Okay so, I have domain blahblah.something with an MX record set to
mail.anotherserver.something. That works fine.
I have a second domain called blahblah2.something. The name is actually
goes to the same site, but I want its email to go via
blahblah.something.
If I point the second domains MX record directly at the mail server, it
doesn't work as there's only a mail account for the FIRST domain.
How can I get domain2 to send mail to domain1 at a DNS level?
Could I set domain2's MX record to domain1?
domain1:
name - blahblah.something
MX - mail.anotherserver.something
domain2:
name - blahblah2.something
MX - blahblah.something
Would that work?
- Posted by Viper on March 14th, 2006
SpaceGirl wrote:
CPanel does this... Nice little feature...
- Posted by William Tasso on March 14th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
SpaceGirl <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
You know there's a time aa place when it's acceptable to use
techno-babble/geek-speak/buzz-words/jargon - this is one of them <g>
The stock answer is to make a CNAME pointing at the first domain from the
second domain.
HTH although I'm not entirely sure I understand the details of the
question.
--
William Tasso
whither a trophy?
- Posted by SpaceGirl on March 14th, 2006
William Tasso wrote:
Hah!
Yeah well, this is what I thought too. I added a CNAME for domain1 in
domain2's record and assumed that email would also be routed to
domain1. However, it fails to deliver any email. I cant fathom out why.
It's behaving as if domain2 has no MX record (which is true, it doesn't
have an MX record of its own as mail SHOULD be going via domain1's MX
record because of the CNAME... phew).
*shrug*
Not sure I do either
- Posted by SpaceGirl on March 14th, 2006
Viper wrote:
Yeah. I toyed with the idea of adding a cpanel, but it's my own
dedicated box and my DNS is handled via a 3rd party, as is my email. I
just do the webby bit. So it'd be overkill (and I doubt it'd work -
it's a Windows box too, which limits cpanel choices).
- Posted by William Tasso on March 14th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
SpaceGirl <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
and? oh well.
domain2:
mail.domain2 CNAME mail.domain1
domain2 MX mail.domain2
shouldn't need to touch domain1 at the DNS level.
What hope is there?
--
William Tasso
whither a trophy?
- Posted by SpaceGirl on March 14th, 2006
William Tasso wrote:
We have a new rule at the studio "no web 2.0 nonsense"
And a project that has a code name of "kojichu" ("under construction"
in Japanese).
I dont have any (more) jargon for today!
Hmm Okay I'll take another look at the records later.
Today, very little. I'm worn out :s
- Posted by Jerry Stuckle on March 14th, 2006
SpaceGirl wrote:
If I understand your problem properly, you still have to set up your
mail server to accept mail for blahblah2.
The DNS just handles routing to a server. Once there, your mail server
validates recipients. How this is done is configurable and varies
*widely* - but one of the things it does is validate the domain as being
on its list.
It's a security feature. Those who don't are generally known as "open
relays"...
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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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- Posted by SpaceGirl on March 14th, 2006
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Really hope that's not the case.
- Posted by David Cary Hart on March 14th, 2006
On 14 Mar 2006 03:46:40 -0800
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