Basic DNS setup??

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94agpp$6k1 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Dick Wilkins <dick_wilkins at hp.com> wrote:
>Keeping it brief... I have registered my own domain "xyz.com". My hardware
>network provider (cable modem based) is assigning me a static IP address
>"nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn". I will have a small server using that address (there is a
>firewall/router/NAT box involved but that doesn't matter for the question).
>My network provider doesn't provide DNS services but an ISP they work
>with will provide me DNS services for my domain for a small setup fee.
>
>I want to be able to tell them what I want as far as DNS entries on their
>server(s) and I'm not sure what those should be. I want the one server  to
>handle email, web and ftp traffic for my domain so the following needs to
>work:
>
>user at xyz.com for email
>http://www.xyz.com and http://xyz.com for the web
>ftp://ftp.xyz.com and ftp://xyz.com should work for ftp access.
>
>What DNS entries need to be added to their existing server to point
>all of these to single nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn IP address and enable email, etc?

xyz.com. IN A nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
         IN MX 10 xyz.com.
www      IN CNAME xyz.com.
ftp      IN CNAME xyz.com.

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