Jim...When you get ready to send the www part of your site to the hosting
company, the only thing you'll need for your end is the domain name and ip
address.
When you go to do your DNS, just delete the www, ftp, etc and leave the pop,
smtp, mail. Give the hosting company your ip address and your set to go.
If you want to use BO, the setup is the same as BQ. There are some
differences in the GUI, but for the most part, the general config is the
same.
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Dory [mailto:jdory (at mark) nomealaska.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:37 PM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:16002] Re: Migrating from Bq - a couple questions
Doug Harvey wrote:
> -
>
>
> Hey Jim...The mail is handled with DNS. If you have server A and
> server B with different IP addresses, then DNS will point
> mail.nomealaska.org to your in-house mail server located at server B. and
the www to server A.
>
> Another way to look at it would be to think of it this way:
>
> www.douglasharvey.com Forward 208.13.130.30 < this would be server A's
> IP address mail.douglasharvey.com Forward 208.13.130.30 < replace with
> server B's IP address
>
> When you get moved over to the hosting company, they can put these DNS
> entries into their DNS server(s) so you wouldn't have to worry about
> routing.
>
> Hope that helps...Doug
>
>
>
>
>
Thanks much Doug.
We only have one ip address so I'll just set it up the same I have it now,
with web and mx pointing to same ip address at nomealaska.org. Then when
ready to move off the website, I can worry about renaming our email server
and have the DNS point at it for mail, and the other for web wherever it
ends up.
thanks, Jim
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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604
http://www.nomealaska.org
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