Hi all, Need a help configuring BIND. I’ve setup a new server (let’s say, named: doc. my_site.ac.mz) following a “virtual users and domain howto” and it works fine. In my organization, a educational organization, there is a mail server running and configured to accept mails for the domain (my_site.ac.mz). What is intended is to have two subdomains one for students and other for other people (e.g. doc.my_site.ac.mz and stu.my_site.ac.mz) with virtual users such as [email protected]_site.ac.mz, [email protected]_site.ac.mz, [email protected]_site.ac.mz, etc., and to have the new server accepting mail for these subdomains. My questions is how to proper configure BIND so that email to [email protected]_site.ac.mz,..., [email protected]_site.ac.mz will be delivered to the new server? So far the zone I’ve set up looks like follows: Code: $TTL 14400 @ 86400 IN SOA tels.my_site.ac.mz. hostmaster.my_site.ac.mz. ( 2009101501 ; serial, todays date+todays 86400 ; refresh, seconds 7200 ; retry, seconds 3600000 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds my_site.ac.mz. 86400 IN NS tels.my_site.ac.mz. my_site.ac.mz. 86400 IN NS ns2.my_site.ac.mz. tels IN A 196.28.228.224 ns2 IN A 196.28.228.223 my_site.ac.mz. IN A 196.28.228.223 localhost.my_site.ac.mz. IN A 127.0.0.1 my_site.ac.mz. IN MX 10 mail.my_site.ac.mz. mail IN A 196.28.228.223 www IN CNAME mail.my_site.ac.mz. ftp IN CNAME mail.my_site.ac.mz. So I think adding the following lines : Code: doc.my_site.ac.mz. 86400 IN NS tels.my_site.ac.mz. stu.my_site.ac.mz. 86400 IN NS tels.my_site.ac.mz. doc.my_site.ac.mz. IN A 196.28.230.99 stu.my_site.ac.mz. IN A 196.28.230.99 doc.my_site.ac.mz. IN MX 10 doc.my_site.ac.mz. stu.my_site.ac.mz. IN MX 10 doc.my_site.ac.mz. Is that a valid configuration? TIA, thavaht
You just need Code: doc.my_site.ac.mz. IN A 196.28.230.99 stu.my_site.ac.mz. IN A 196.28.230.99 doc.my_site.ac.mz. IN MX 10 doc.my_site.ac.mz. stu.my_site.ac.mz. IN MX 10 doc.my_site.ac.mz. But if emails for stu.my_site.ac.mz should be deliered to a different server, the MX record for stu.my_site.ac.mz must point to that other server.
Thanks for replying. Another question I’m facing now is about the reverse zones: Since I’m using IP’s on 196.28.228.XXX and 196.28.230.XXX, is that legal to create two reverse zones, 228.28.196.in-addr.arpa and 230.28.196.in-addr.arpa?
Yes, but usually your ISP that gave you the IPs create the reverse records for you. I'd ask them if they can do it for you.
