From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Campbell Subject: Re: DNS question Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:23:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20050510152302.GB24684@helium.inexs.com> References: <20050510150159.GA24684@helium.inexs.com> <200505100914.50299.jens@surefoot.com> Reply-To: campbell@accelinc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505100914.50299.jens@surefoot.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jens Knoell Cc: campbell@accelinc.com, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:14:50AM -0600, Jens Knoell wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 09:01, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > I've managed to completely confuse myself. > > > > I have a domain registered at a registrar and hosted at a provider. > > > > The provider has given me primary and secondary DNS names and ip addresses. > > > > I have entered those at the registrar's site. All whois queries work and > > email is configured and working properly. I can find the web site from > > anyone's browser. > > > > I now have a new company which has built commercial web pages for me, and I > > need to make them active. This company says I need to change my DNS > > addresses with my registrar to make this work. Is this correct? They will > > then take over hosting the domain (become my NEW provider)? > > > > They do NOT do any email, so if I make the DNS server changes at my > > registrar, will my email break? > > > > If not, then I'm not sure I understand how any of this works. > > > > I thought that my provider (ISP) puts up A and MX DNS records which allow > > resolution of my web pages and my email addresses. If I switch to a new > > provider that claims to not do email, who will make my email work? > > 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? > 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? Are there some tools which let me see what A and MX records exist now, and where they actually are living? thanks, -chuck -- ACCEL Services, Inc.| Specialists in Gravity, Magnetics | (713)993-0671 ph. 2401 Fountain View | and Integrated Interpretation | (713)993-0608 fax Suite 320 | Since 1992 | (713)306-5794 cell Houston, TX, 77057 | Chuck Campbell | campbell@accelinc.com | President & Senior Geoscientist | "Integration means more than having all the maps at the same scale!"