[ale] godaddy for DNS

[Tim Watts]

John,

On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 20:06 -0600, John Heim wrote:
> I know lots and lots of people who make their gmail account look like their 
> work account. I don't know how they do that but if you look at the message 
> headers, they say the mail is from example.com when its really from gmail.
> 
I use a service from DynDNS called MailHop or Mail Forward or something.
Basically, any email directed to my cliftonfarm.org address gets
forwarded to whatever email address I want.  I'm sure GoDaddy has a
similar service.  Costs me about $40/yr I think.


> iavit.org used to be on dreamhost. We had
> mailman lists configured to use lists.iavit.org. But if you did a lookup on 
> the IP address for lists.iavit.org, you didn't get back lists.iavit.org.  So 
> that part, at least, is no different than it used to be.
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Erik Mathis
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:36 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] godaddy for DNS
> 
> You need an MX record pointing the VM for mail to get delivered to
> your server. Also you will want bith forward and reverse DNS matching
> for your outbound email to really work. Most mail admins, block mail
> from IPs that dont match.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record
> 
> -Erik-
> 
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:12 AM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I have a donated virtual machine to use for a non-profit. Its for the
> > International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists (IAVIT). I've
> > registered iavit.org at godaddy. But I'm a little confused as to what DNS
> > records I need in order to get mail (postfix, dovecot)  and lists 
> > (mailman)
> > to work. I need email addresses like john at iavit.org to work and addresses
> > like announce at lists.iavit.org to work.
> > What I have at the moment is an A record with a blank host name pointing 
> > to
> > the IP of our VM, another A record for lists that points to the same IP
> > address. I wasn't sure you could have 2 A records pointing to the same IP
> > address but it seems to work.  Then I have CNAME records for www and wiki
> > pointing to lists.
> >
> > Can I point godday to a DNS server on the virtual machine itself? I tried 
> > to
> > do that but it balked. For one thing, it said I needed 2 DNS servers. I'm
> > not sure what the point of that is because iif DNS is down on the VM,
> > nothing else on the VM is going to work anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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