two domains and secondaries

Roderick B. Greening roderick at cableatlantic.nf.ca
Wed Jul 21 14:08:20 UTC 1999


I believe you need an MX record for each domain pointing to the IP of the
mail server. In addition, you need to allow the mail server to receive
mail for those domains. In sendmail, this would be done by ading the
domains wd.com and wd1.com to the sendmail.cw.

Hope this helps.

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, A.R. wrote:

> I have two questions:
> 
> 1. I have one mail server called world-domination.com.  I have added two
> new domains
> at the nic wd.com and wd1.com.  I want to be able to use this one mail
> server to serve
> mail for the same set of users.  For example, harpo at world-domination.com
> works great.
> But, i want harpo at wd.com and harpo at wd1.com to work exactly the same.
> What is
> the "DNS" magic that needs to happen to allow this to work?
> -Multiple cnames?
> -Multiple mx's?
> 
> 2. Could someone describe for me how secondary dns servers get updated
> by primary
> dns servers?  Specifically, if i change the records on the primary, how
> long, and what
> are the details of the file update/transfer on the slave (or
> secondaries)?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.  Please use no more than 2 syllable words in your
> response.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Warmest regards,
> 
> 
> A. Rahman
> Systems Engineer
> 
> 
> 

Roderick B. Greening, BSc.	|
Network Specialist		| roderick at cableatlantic.nf.ca
Cable Atlantic Inc.		|



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