On Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:25, Rick Faircloth wrote: > In the A records, I did have a Host name "mail" that "Points To > 66.79.46.138" (my only IP). I say I "did have" because I figured > it was unnecessary at least and harmful at best, so I removed > the "mail" subdomain from the A records completely. Correct this to do?
It's normal to define an A record for the host that is your MX (ie handles your email). > Now in the MX records, there is > > "Host mail Goes To mail.whitestonemedia.com" > "Host smtp Goes To mail.whitestonemedia.com" > "Host pop Goes To mail.whitestonemedia.com" If you've removed the A record, this won't work - what is the IP of mail.whitestonemedia.com, according to your DNS ? > But why would these settings, if incorrect, only affect only one customer? > Why not > all people trying to access my websites? DNS propogates slowly, and at different speeds, depending on the moon :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to adaptively target performance-oriented solutions **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:261845 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
