Are the DNS Servers (entries) for web pages and email POP3 accounts the same ?

[Steven Prasil]

If I try to access web pages or POP3 accounts in Internet: Do they use the same DNS servers ?

What if WebServer for a domain is on another server (IP) than the POP3 email account?

With which whois tool can I find out which is the current IP for the web server and which is the current IP
for POP3 account ?

Steven

 

[Malke]

If I try to access web pages or POP3 accounts in Internet: Do they use
the same DNS servers ?

What if WebServer for a domain is on another server (IP) than the POP3
email account?

With which whois tool can I find out which is the current IP for the
web server and which is the current IP for POP3 account ?

Steven

What are you really trying to do? The mail server settings have nothing
to do with DNS. Webservers and mailservers usually are separate
machines and do completely different jobs. The DNS servers you are
concerned with are the ones used by your ISP.

See this link for a definition of DNS:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DNS.html

Two good sites for looking up Whois information (and other things) are:
http://www.samspade.org/
http://www.dnsstuff.com/

If you have a problem for which you'd like help in this newsgroup,
please refer to this link to see what details you need to include in
your next post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

Malke

 

[Frankster]

If I try to access web pages or POP3 accounts in Internet:

Do they use the same DNS servers ?

Yes, usually.

What if WebServer for a domain is on another server (IP) than the
POP3 email account?

Then it is different. That's okay.

With which whois tool can I find out which is the current IP for the
web server and which is the current IP for POP3 account ?

You can use http://news.netcraft.com/ to determine the webserver IP.

You can use nslookup (in windows) to determine the mail server IP. (nslookup
[enter] then "?" for help)

-Frank

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

When you register an Internet domain, you must provide an authoritative
public DNS server - usually 2. Ultimately all public name resolution for
host names within the domain comes from these servers - this has nothing to
do with local name resolution within your Active Directory domain. A DNS
zone may contain many host records with many different IPs - subnets are
irrelevant. If you know the name of a host, you should be able to resolve
it by pinging the fully qualified domain name. You may be able to retrieve
a list of host records by using a tool such as nslookup.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

If I try to access web pages or POP3 accounts in Internet: Do they use the same DNS servers ?

What if WebServer for a domain is on another server (IP) than the POP3 email account?

With which whois tool can I find out which is the current IP for the web

server and which is the current IP