>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Schimpf <dschimpf @
mtvernon1 .
accessus .
net> writes:
Dan> We are already using xxx.com. They http site is also requesting
Dan> (demanding) to use www.xxx.com also. I'm fairly new in setting
Dan> internet services up. Can we have an alias posted to the world
Dan> for 'www.xxx.com' or do can we have our firewall (or router for
Dan> that matter) forward any requests on port 80 to the http machine
Dan> at our contracted site and let all of our e-mail through to our
Dan> local server???
Demanding. Ha. Maybe you should remind them ("one of us is the
customer, and it would not be you.")
Anyway, this is an easy fix with DNS.
Web server is 1.2.3.4
your mail relay is 4.3.2.1
In the DNS, make:
* an A record for www.xxx.com to be 1.2.3.4
* an A record for mail.xxx.com to be 4.3.2.1
* an MX record for xxx.com to mail.xxx.com
If you want to completely delegate the web service to them, including
mail to www.xxx.com (i.e., webmaster @
www .
xxx .
com), then ignore this
section:
{
* (maybe) an MX record for www.xxx.com to mail.xxx.com
And *tell* your web hosting folks that they *will not* run an SMTP
daemon on your web server. And periodically check to make sure that
they don't, otherwise, they will pick up mail for www.xxx.com.
}
If they also want it so that http://xxx.com/ will work just as
http://www.xxx.com/, tell them that you're not going to give them the
address or alias records, because you want to keep mail to xxx.com
coming in to your machines, and you don't want to make your own
services interruptable by someone making an error at their site.
--
C Matthew Curtin MEGASOFT, LLC Director, Security Architecture
I speak only for myself. Don't whine to anyone but me about anything I say.
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cmcurtin @
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