A client is setting up a dedicated in-house mail server, and needs me to chnge his DNS mail host records.

While looking at the edit DNS zone in WHM....I have a couple questions. He has supplied the IP as well as mail.hisdomain.com name.

WHERE (i.e. which field) do I put the IP in? and the mail host address. Right now for example the fields have these entries:
(I only included mail specific)...

hisdomain.com 14400 in MX 0 hisdomain.com.
mail 14400 in CNAME hisdomain.com.


Who can help me out? Thanks in advance! ;)

add an A record
mail.domain.com A 12.345.678.910*
add an MX record
domain.com MX0 mail.domain.com
add cname but not required
domain.com Cname mail.domain.com

*modify ip to the correct mail server IP.

save changes :)

Thanks...I do need to remove the existing records (shown in my original post) don't I ?

no, just edit it to the correct dns entry.

OK.....How does this look?.....

hisdomain.com name server ns1.mydnsserver.com
hisdomain.com name server ns2.mydnsserver.com
hisdomain.com A 123.123.123.123
localhost.hisdomain.com A 127.0.0.1
hisdomain.com MX 0 mail.hisdomain.com.
hisdomain.com CNAME mail.hisdomain.com.
www CNAME hisdomain.com
ftp CNAME hisdomain.com
mail.hisdomain.com. A 999.999.999.999

**123.123.123.123 is his IP on my server
**999.999.999.999 is his new mail server


So waddaya think? Thanks again for the help :D

uh-ho....

I just tried to do a domain lookup from WHM and I am getting an error message:

DNS
Host not found, try again.

Zone Info
Server failed: Query refused

Musta done a bad thing!?! Suggestions?

Ooopppsss....Just a small editing problem. I corrected it, and no problem now! All is well.