Help!

Alexey Rak rakol at serve.com
Sat Jul 10 04:22:46 UTC 1999


OK, here's what you should enter into RRs.
I'll precede records with "RR> " (that's not actually part of the
record).

First of all, your domain should have its own IP address.
You now specify IP address of your domain test.dhs.org; assuming your IP
is 123.0.0.0 the record is:

  RR> test.dhs.org.  IN A 123.0.0.0

Now specify the nameservers that serve your domain:

  RR> test.dhs.org.  IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
  RR> test.dhs.org.  IN NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.

If you want your domain to be accessible through www.test.dhs.org you
need to create a canonical name for www:

  RR> www   IN CNAME test.dhs.org.

The same way, if your server handles your domain's mail, you can call it
mail.test.dhs.org for example:

  RR> mail  IN CNAME test.dhs.org.
  RR> test.dhs.org.  IN MX 10 mail.test.dhs.org.

Now add localhost entry (granitecanyon requires it), and DON'T
substitute 127.0.0.1 with your own IP:

  RR> localhost  IN A 127.0.0.1

Create a Responsible Person (RP) entry, using your data
[email at provider.com]:

  RR> test.dhs.org.  IN RP email.provider.com.
Firstname.Lastname.test.dhs.org.
  RR> Firstname.Lastname.test.dhs.org.  IN TXT "Firstname Lastname"

This should be enough to get you going. Also see granitecanyon's FAQs
for any errors you might encounter.

-- 
Best Regards,
Alexey Rak (rakol at serve.com)


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