Adding External Host Records (Theoretical)

[David Grant]

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

 

[Jeff Cochran]

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

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

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/prodt...cs/entserver/sag_DNS_pro_CreateDelegation.asp>
<URL:http://microsoft.com./technet/prodt.../proddocs/entserver/sag_DNS_pro_AddDomain.asp>