Seperating web & e-mail for the same domain name???

[Tani Hosokawa]

Why couldn't he have an MX record pointing to his home machine?

On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:54:14PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> 
> no, it doesn't work that way. Virtual hosting is when one machine
> server multiple domains or IPs. A request to yoururl.com, whether it
> be email or http will get sent to the IP that the name resolves to in
> the lookup tables. Now if you want to forward that request to another
> machine that might possible, but my guess is that it would be easier
> to set up the domain at the isp and have them forward mail requests to
> you.
> 
> why would you want to do this, by the way?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:13:04 -0600, Andrew Ward <award at cisco.com>
> scribbled:
> 
> >OK, so I have a domain name, and it points to a static IP address.
> >Right?
> >
> >Now I have a DSL line feeding a small server that I want to send/
> >receive mail from/to for about 30 users.
> >
> >But I don't want to be serving up web pages externally through
> >a DSL line. I want my ISP (or another ISP) to host those web pages.
> >
> >But I want the e-mail and web pages at all be 
> >
> >	bozo at myplace.org
> > 
> >        and
> >
> >	www.myplace.org
> >
> >How do I tell my ISP this? Is this called virtual web hosting? 
> >Virtual domain name? What? How is the e-mail and web traffic 
> >separated when Internic points DNS lookups to the same address?
> >(Or does it?)
> >
> >(The ISP in this case is California's Pacific Bell, with the
> >small business "enhanced" DSL package.) They are stupid, so 
> >I want to know exactly what i am asking for before I do.
> >
> >Where the heck can I find a FAQ on this stuff?... Can't seem 
> >to find a good one.
> >
> >Thanks very much.
> >
> >-Andrew
> >award at cisco.com
> 
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tani hosokawa
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