From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Knoell Subject: Re: DNS question Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:37:24 -0600 Message-ID: <200505100937.24885.jens@surefoot.com> References: <20050510150159.GA24684@helium.inexs.com> <200505100914.50299.jens@surefoot.com> <20050510152302.GB24684@helium.inexs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050510152302.GB24684@helium.inexs.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: campbell@accelinc.com Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Forgot... On Tuesday 10 May 2005 09:23, Chuck Campbell wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:14:50AM -0600, Jens Knoell wrote: > > That provider is probably giving you a load of BS. I've seen providers > > who actually "need" the DNS resolvers on their servers, but in each case > > it's just a matter of total utter BS on their side. The only thing you > > need to do is point the www entry to the providers webserver. > > Who (in my current situation) needs to point the www entry? I assume you > mean my current provider needs to change something to point web resolution > to a different address? What (so I can speak intelligently with them) > needs to be changed? In the current situation, you would have to. Either with a CNAME entry, or with an A entry. > > Alternatively if you'd rather play along and transfer the domains > > nameservice to them, you can still add an MX entry pointing elsewhere if > > they don't provide email services. > > I can't add an MX for email, the (new) provider would have to do that, > correct? If you have the authority to make DNS changes to your domain, you could do that. J