Control of MX record - (Was - Re: [Gllug] Web hosting, email and dns)

[Colin Murphy]

On Saturday 07 September 2002 2:38 pm, Ian Norton wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 10:53:40AM +0100, Colin Murphy wrote:
> > Through the 123-reg web interface, I've only got access to change A
> > and CNAME records.  Is this unusual?  If so, would this be peculiar to
> > just .me.uk domains?  If I had bought a .co.uk would I have got more
> > control?
>
> many domain companies barely even allow you to make A records, usually
> its linked into some web forwarding thing,

So, am I right in thinking that the 'system' is not set up to allow 
'humbles' like me to get easy access to MX record control?

Am I also right in thinking that most 'humbles' can cope without this?

I still can't see how or where 'more-than-humbles' get access to this 
feature and any others needed to run an enterprise mail system.  Do they 
have to register directly with ICANN or something?

Am I also right in thinking that this is a concern only for 'less than 
humble' Microsoft users, who will be content to take their mail from a 
remote server over which they have no control?

If only I had started thinking before starting out on this endeavour :-) 

-- 
Colin Murphy
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A man for all seasons, 'specially pepper.

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