I`ve got a dumb question. Do most of you with multiple servers setup all your servers under the same doman name or a different domain for each server? You can have many servers setup under the same domain right?

I have two servers one setup as "server1.hotweb.com" for example and my second server as "server2.hotweb.com" ... but my second server`s hostname wasn`t resolving because the domain hotweb.com wasn`t pointing to that server so outgoing mail on my server wasn`t functioning properly. I know outgoing mail won`t function and you will have extreme amount of bounce backs if the hostname doesn`t resolve.

But if the domain hotweb.com must point to the server`s main IP... how can it function then... because you can`t make the domain point to BOTH server`s main IP?

This question probably didn`t make any sense and i think i just confused the hell out of myself.

server2.hotweb.com needs an A record (on server1) pointing to server2's IP address...

I have done it, it works great.

I see thanks, so that`s how most hosts do it? They have multiple servers setup under the same domain but just have all the A records pointing to the same server?

The outgoing mail wasn`t functioning on either of my two servers because hotweb.com was pointing to godaddy, i didn`t realize i had to make the domain point to the server`s IP in order for the hostname to resolve because i`m an idiot.