On Mon December 14 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The devil is in the details. If your home broadband ISP is going to > host your DNS, you _must_ inform your domain registrar, Netsol in this > case, of your new DNS servers' and their IP addresses. Then you must > explicitly tell your broadband ISP exactly what records you want in your > zone file and the contents of each record. To minimize downtime (lost > email), you'll want your broadband ISP to already have your DNS zone > created and ready _before_ Netwol switches your domain records. Your > TTL is 900, or 15 minutes, so you shouldn't have to worry about any lost > mail during the DNS switchover, ASSUMING YOU HAVE EVERYTHING ELSE SETUP > CORRECTLY.
not to mention, I have to cancel my current hosting setup, get them OUT of the loop. I have already emailed my ISP, and they can take care of all the zone, and MX records. > > If you're running an internet mail server (SMTP) at you home, POP/IMAP > will be handled on your local private network, and thus aren't part of > the current discussion. I guess this would be a good time to point out > that you haven't yet mentioned how you plan to get to the mail that's > delivered to your MX, or what you plan on having your MTA do with > internet mail once it arrives. dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, setup my box as my domain host, have the mail show up in /var/mail, and bring it into kmail as a local user. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org