[Preston] email problems

[Gareth Llewellyn]

No, notice on the line @       IN  MX  5 mail.nlvh.co.uk and on the second
one IN  MX  10 mail1.nlvh.co.uk.

The Number 5 and then 10 means the weighting they are assigned. So when
someone tries to send you an email. The MX record that returns for your
domain is primarily mail.nlvh.co.uk but if that one doesn't respond it will
try the next weighted choice which is mail1.nlvh.co.uk. I just realized that
was an answer to a question you didn't ask. Damnit, I'll leave it there for
other people tho.

 

You can set your mail.nvlh.co.uk server to replicate (Or just act as a
client) from mail1.nvlh.co.uk in the same way you can get secondary DNS
servers to replicate from a master record.

 

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From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Craven
Sent: 06 December 2004 12:08
To: preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Preston] email problems

 

After my recent email problems receiving email from Freeserve, who
completely deny that they were at fault, I need to setup secondary email
servers.
My current dns is:
mail    IN  A   195.8.178.184
@       IN  MX  5 mail.nlvh.co.uk.

and I want to add a mail server on a second server.
e.g:
mail    IN  A   195.8.178.184
@       IN  MX  5 mail.nlvh.co.uk.
mail1    IN  A   82.68.28.34
@       IN  MX  10 mail1.nlvh.co.uk.

Can somebody tell me if this is the correct way of doing it and will it
work, assuming that I setup the second mail server as mail1.nlvh.co.uk.

If this is the correct way, do I need to setup 2 email clients to receive
email from mail.nlvh.co.uk. and mail1.nlvh.co.uk.

If I am completely wrong would somebody give me some pointers in the right
direction.

Thanks,

John C
PS The Freeserve problem now seems to be resolved. Thanks to everybody who
helped.



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