DNS settings

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From: "SP" <none>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:08:49 -1000

Our website and email DNS settings are registered at hosting company (where
we have access to modify).

The website and email server are currently hosted there. Eventually, we
will have the website hosted in-house on one of our new SBSs, but the email
server will remain at the hosting company.

How do I change the DNS settings for this to work ? And how long does it
take for the settings to go into effect ?

Here is a sample of DNS entries for our site (with 111.111.111.111 being the
domain IP).

domainname.com. Address Record (A) 111.111.111.111

localhost.domainname.com. Address Record (A) 127.0.0.1

ftp.domainname.com. Canonical Name (CNAME) domainname.com.

pop.domainname.com. Canonical Name (CNAME) domainname.com.

smtp.domainname.com. Canonical Name (CNAME) domainname.com.

www.domainname.com. Canonical Name (CNAME) domainname.com.

domainname.com. Mail Exchange Record (MX) preference=10,
host=domainname.com.

imap.domainname.com. Canonical Name (CNAME) domainname.com.

news.domainname.com. Canonical Name (CNAME) domainname.com.

If the web server's new domain IP will be 222.222.222.222, please indicate
changes for the above entries to point the web server to the new IP while
keeping the email server with the old IP.

Your help is really appreciated.

Steve

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