Hi Guys,

I trying to find some sort of tutorial that explains how to fully set up domains on a raq4i box. The tutes at Rackshack only explain the obvious stuff like how to add a virtual site but they dont mention how to set up SOA, mx records etc to make sure that the domain works properly.

Does anyone know where I can find such a holy grail? I have a friend that has set up previous domains for me and I can always copy the settings parrot fashion but its not the same as knowing what your doing.

Cheers
Andy

The 'official' way is given as a HOWTO on pkgmaster.com.

Assuming your site is www.example.com, I always do this:
A record - www.example.com > IP
A record - example.com > IP
A record - mail.example.com > IP
MX record - example.com served by high priority mail.example.com

Then, in the site settings config, under web server alias, put
example.com

and under mail server alias put
example.com, mail.example.com

HTH,

Brandon

There is also a document available from Sun which gives you a nice overview of DNS on Cobalt box.

http://www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/documentation/other.html