Bind Problem :(

Mahmood Javanmardi javanmardi at sepehrgostar.com
Sun Oct 20 12:01:58 UTC 2002


Dear Eric,
Thanx For your help, Excuse me because of my Bad English,
Don't we need a record like this:
ddd.ccc.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa.  IN  PTR     mail.foo.com.
 in a file with this name:
db.aaa.bbb.ccc
With respect to this fact that  aaa.bbb.ccc is not in our ip addresses
range.

Mahmood


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric L. Howard" <elh at outreachnetworks.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: Bind Problem :(


>
> At a certain time, now past, Mahmood Javanmardi spake thusly:
> > Suppose that We have "foo.com" domain that is mapped to a class C
network
> > say 200.200.1.0/24
>
> Technically speaking, a domain isn't mapped to a netblock.  A domain is
> delegated to nameservers and registered to an organization.  The
> organization that runs "foo.com" is then responsible for creating entries
> about hosts and subdomains under "foo.com".
>
> > But Our Mail Server is Somewhere else, ("mail.foo.com") with another IP
> > address say 64.239.82.55 that is shared between some mail server and
> > maintain by somebody else who have their own DNS server.
>
> That's not a problem, you need an entry in your zone for "foo.com" that
> tells the world that mail.foo.com has an address of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.  That
> address does not have to reside on your network, but the host that is
> supposed to be an MX for "foo.com" needs to know that it's providing those
> functions.
>
> > I have created all the nessecary files to run bind means:
> > db.cache,  db.200.200.1, db.127.0.0, db.foo and also named.conf
> > But I don't know what I should append to these configuration to support
my
> > mail server.
>
> You need an MX record for the "foo.com" domain that points to
"mail.foo.com"
> and an A record for "mail.foo.com".  There are a couple ways to do this,
but
> since you didn't let us know what your zone file looks like the entries
> below should help w/ your config.
>
> foo.com.      IN     MX     5      mail.foo.com.
> mail.foo.com. IN     A      aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
>
>        ~elh
>
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