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

[Martyn Drake]

Hi,

My hosting provider (kdawebservices.com) does offer some flexibility
over the control of the domain you're hosting with them.  As well as the
usual A and CNAME record changes, they do allow you to make changes to
MX records.  However, you still have the priority 10 mail pointer active
(and you can't change that via the control panel) BUT you can add higher
or lower priority MX records to the domain if you wish.

Alternatively, host the DNS yourself at somewhere like EasyDNS.com or
try the DynDNS offering at
http://www.dyndns.org/mydyndns/custom/features.php, called MyDynDNS.
They'd allow you to change anything for your domain for a one off fee of
$30.

Regards,

	Martyn

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf
Of Colin Murphy
Sent: 07 September 2002 11:28
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: Control of MX record - (Was - Re: [Gllug] Web hosting,
email and dns)

On Saturday 07 September 2002 11:09 am, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, 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?
>
> It is unusual that you get any direct control at all if you are not
> running your own name servers.

Do you think that's what Sean originally meant when he said "They don't 
offer much by way of DNS - but allow you to take control of that
easily."



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