On Tuesday 10 May 2005 09:23, Chuck Campbell <CC> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:14:50AM -0600, Jens Knoell wrote: > > Hi Chuck, > > > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 09:01, Chuck Campbell <CC> wrote: > > > I've managed to completely confuse myself. > > > > > > I have a domain registered at a registrar and hosted at a provider. > > > > > > The provider has given me primary and secondary DNS names and ip > > > addresses. > > > > > > I have entered those at the registrar's site. All whois queries work > > > and email is configured and working properly. I can find the web site > > > from anyone's browser. > > > > > > I now have a new company which has built commercial web pages for me, > > > and I need to make them active. This company says I need to change my > > > DNS addresses with my registrar to make this work. Is this correct? > > > They will then take over hosting the domain (become my NEW provider)? > > > > > > They do NOT do any email, so if I make the DNS server changes at my > > > registrar, will my email break? > > > > > > If not, then I'm not sure I understand how any of this works. > > > > > > I thought that my provider (ISP) puts up A and MX DNS records which > > > allow resolution of my web pages and my email addresses. If I switch > > > to a new provider that claims to not do email, who will make my email > > > work? > > > > That provider is probably giving you a load of BS. I've seen providers > > who actually "need" the DNS resolvers on their servers, but in each case > > it's just a matter of total utter BS on their side. The only thing you > > need to do is point the www entry to the providers webserver. > > Who (in my current situation) needs to point the www entry? I assume you > mean my current provider needs to change something to point web resolution > to a different address? What (so I can speak intelligently with them) > needs to be changed? > > > Alternatively if you'd rather play along and transfer the domains > > nameservice to them, you can still add an MX entry pointing elsewhere if > > they don't provide email services. > > I can't add an MX for email, the (new) provider would have to do that, > correct? > > Are there some tools which let me see what A and MX records exist now, and > where they actually are living? Depends on the DNS setup. You can look up individual records with dig (like in: dig yahoo.com NS) or you can use the regular "host" command like so: host -t NS yahoo.com host -t MX yahoo.com or plain: host yahoo.com in rare cases you can also grab the whole DNS table by using: dig @ns.yahoo.com yahoo.com AXFR where you put in any of the nameservers which are authoritative for the yahoo.com domain. Most DNS servers have this disabled though. Hope this helps J - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
