newbie: how is email server in a simple network configured?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Nov 17 04:27:43 UTC 2004


In article <cndf0r$dkk$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 jeanluc_picard_66 at hotmail.com (picard) wrote:

> Assume a small company has an email server with the name
> mail.companyname.com.
> 
> The company also has a single simple router that assigns all computers
> on the network an IP address using DHCP. The company does not have a
> domain server or wins server.
> 
> Can the router be set up to route all traffic for mail.companyname.com
> to the email server or must the server be located outside of the
> router?

Dynamic DNS update can be used to install an A record for 
mail.company.com with its current IP address whenever the DHCP server 
assigns it.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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