Im probably overlooking something blatently obvious here, however...
I'm setting up a single machine to be housed in a server room to
act as a mail server for a domain. As it happens, it's the only
permanently-connected server on the domain.
I've been allocated two IP's to set up as ns1 and ns2, and told
to put them both on the same machine, and I've pointed my NIC
records for the domain to these two IP's. I dont see much point
having an off-site secondary, as if the machine goes down, the
mail server's down anyway, so you wont be able to connect, and
as its the only machine on the domain nothing else will be
affected!!...
Problem 1) How do i get the machine to respond to incoming packets
to both IP's?? Any general guidance on setting up primary AND
secondary dns on the same machine would be much appreciated too!!
Problem 2) I've read that you're not supposed to point MX records
or NS Records to CNAMES - if there's only two IP's, that'll be
one each for ns1 and ns2... I presume by this I cant Cname
mail.domain.com to one of them, but are there any issused with
more than one Resource Record pointing to the same IP?
Thanks for any help! Im on my fifth how-to now, and getting
increasingly confused with each one i read!! Makes me wonder
whether i should go register pink-padded-cell.org instead! ;-)
Cheers!
Steve
