Hi,

I am in the process of transferring the DNS records of example.org.

Amongst their DNS records are three MX records:

mailhost.example.org
mail.one.example.com
mail.two.example.com

Each of these records must be setup as a host. I have no problem
setting up the first record, as the DNS domain is already example.org.
My question is:

How do I add the second two entries as hosts, since the dialog box in
W2K only allows me (seemingly) to add hosts that are subdomains of the
current domain (e.g. example.org).

I am not responsible for the dns records of example.com

Regards,

David Grant

On 22 Jan 2004 04:43:28 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (David Grant)
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am in the process of transferring the DNS records of example.org.
>
>Amongst their DNS records are three MX records:
>
>mailhost.example.org
>mail.one.example.com
>mail.two.example.com
>
>Each of these records must be setup as a host. I have no problem
>setting up the first record, as the DNS domain is already example.org.
> My question is:
>
>How do I add the second two entries as hosts, since the dialog box in
>W2K only allows me (seemingly) to add hosts that are subdomains of the
>current domain (e.g. example.org).

No, actually you can only add hosts that are *hosts* in the current
domain. If you add a subdomain, or a new Zone in Windows terminology,
you can then add hosts into that subdomain.

But that's not really what you want. You want to add a MX record, not
a host. You don't actually need the hosts defined to add the MX
record (it helps if they're defined *somewhere* naturally...) so just
add a New Record, type MX and enter the FQDN. Make sure you match the
priotity number, or at least the priority order, of the original
records.

Jeff

JC> If you add a subdomain, or a new Zone in Windows terminology,
JC> you can then add hosts into that subdomain.

Actually, in Microsoft terminology it would _also_ be a subdomain
that one adds. In Microsoft terminology "zone" is _not_ the term
for a subdomain.

<URL:http://microsoft.com./technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/entserver/sag_DNS_pro_CreateDelegation.asp>
<URL:http://microsoft.com./technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/entserver/sag_DNS_pro_AddDomain.asp>