RH8 , DNS, Bind

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Don,

Understand the learning curve; we've all gone through it and you'll get
there.  Though I'm not yet much of an expert with LDAP configuration, I can
sure assist you with bind.

If I recall correctly (this certainly isn't the case on most of the servers
I admin, so that's the only reason I'm not 100 percent certain now) the
default location for the zone files is in /var/named.  So, go edit
/var/named/domain.com (replace domain.com with your domain name) and just
add two lines like the following after the definition of your domain's A
record:

mail.domain.com.    IN    A    <IP Address>
domain.com.    IN    MX    10    mail.domain.com.

Hope this gets you going in the right direction on your name server; if you
write me off list, I may be able/willing to take a look at it for you.  BTW,
O'Reilly's book on DNS and BIND is excellent!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Calfa" <tvat3000@netscape.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: RH8 , DNS, Bind


> I meant the GUI is handicapped.  Only A records allowed.  I figured (and
> actually prefer) CLI (Cisco junkie) would be the best way but I have my
> personal projects due ASAP.  I just had a son, my hosted email just
> blocked port 143 from me, I know M$ very well but hate it, and I need to
> get my mail back up.  All this with a newborn makes the learning curve
> more difficult.
>
> What I was hoping for was a default install of RH and that the tools
> would be complete.
>
> I'm trying to get a DNS server (mine) to point my MX to my server.  That
> (the DNS stuff) I can get if I can get BIND down (easy).
> I'm learning OpenLDAP and need to get my Exchange Address books
> incorporated. (still don't have a clue yet)
> Then I need to figure out Courier with Webmail and IMAP to host my mail.
> (I sure hope by December - my goal)
>
> I just need a cheat sheet for LDAP to get me going.  Also if I could see
> someone's Courier mail server config files, that would also help me out.
>  Still haven't installed Courier, just read the docs.
>
> More importantly, I need this stuff up.  I can slap this up in 30
> minutes with NT but I hate it.  I'm looking for a long term solution.
>  If anyone has experience with OpenLDAP and Courier, I would like to get
> together at one of the meetings or sooner.
>
> Darrell Shandrow wrote:
>
> >Hi Mike,
> >
> >It is better to learn to do things from the command-line interface.  :-)
> >In what way do you feel Bind 9 is handicapped?
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 tvat3000@netscape.net wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I was looking for the GUI way out but I guess I'll suck it up.  Thanks
for the syntax.  This version seems very handicapped.
> >>
> >>Mike Starke <meg@lilly.csoft.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hmm, maybe something like:
> >>>
> >>>yourdomainname.com. IN  MX  0   mail.yourdomainname.com.
> >>>yourdomainname.com. IN  MX  5   mail2.yourdomainname.com.
> >>>
> >>>in your Bind files?
> >>>
> >>>v/r
> >>>-Mike
> >>>
> >>>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:13:51PM -0500, tvat3000@netscape.net wrote:
> >>>/_How does one set an MX record with RH8?
> >>>/_
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