<p>Godaddy stole a domain from me for a year and 60 days, never even check avaublity on there site.</p>
<p>Also for mx records you don't need a prefix you use @ or what ever modifyer your domain hosting wants.</p>
<p>Sorry for spelling walking and typeing</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 29, 2011 12:39 PM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I use GoDaddy for a registrar and that is all I use them for. I would not trust them with the DNS records (I wouldn't be surprised if they pointed to a GoDaddy park page for way longer than they should). No, I use Linode's DNS manager for all of my records. <br>
<br>That said, I used to use Zone Edit (<a href="http://www.zoneedit.com/" target="_blank">http://www.zoneedit.com/</a>) when I needed some free DNS record keeping. They still offer enough free service for your purposes. <br>
<br>On Thursday, December 29, 2011, John Heim <<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net" target="_blank">john@johnheim.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi, I have a donated virtual machine to use for a non-profit. Its for the<br>> International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists (IAVIT). I've<br>> registered <a href="http://iavit.org" target="_blank">iavit.org</a> at godaddy. But I'm a little confused as to what DNS<br>
> records I need in order to get mail (postfix, dovecot) and lists (mailman)<br>> to work. I need email addresses like <a href="mailto:john@iavit.org" target="_blank">john@iavit.org</a> to work and addresses<br>> like <a href="mailto:announce@lists.iavit.org" target="_blank">announce@lists.iavit.org</a> to work.<br>
> What I have at the moment is an A record with a blank host name pointing to<br>> the IP of our VM, another A record for lists that points to the same IP<br>> address. I wasn't sure you could have 2 A records pointing to the same IP<br>
> address but it seems to work. Then I have CNAME records for www and wiki<br>> pointing to lists.<br>><br>> Can I point godday to a DNS server on the virtual machine itself? I tried to<br>> do that but it balked. For one thing, it said I needed 2 DNS servers. I'm<br>
> not sure what the point of that is because iif DNS is down on the VM,<br>> nothing else on the VM is going to work anyway.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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