Re: Confused about name servers and web site hosting
- From: "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:55:25 +1100
much easier for the web hosting company to maintain the records. If you get
a dynamic name software on the SBS can update the IP for the A record for
server.dynamic_name.whatever, this DNS zone would be held by the dynamic DNS
provider.
The public zone records only need a one time change to handle this, add
server.dynamic_name.whatever as an MX entry and maybe remove the ISP's MX.
It's possible that the ISP may provide 'backup MX', or you could continue to
use the POP boxes as a 'sorrta backup MX', this requires the MX record for
the SBS IP to be higher priority than the ISP's MX and maintenance of the
POP boxes.
I would not expect the web hosting company to charge much, let alone any,
for the zone changes.
"dvw" <dvw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:80B02112-960B-4C6D-BE7F-F220EEAAA5DF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Here's the situation. Small nonprofit with single NIC SBS 2003 Std. SP1
> and 5
> XPSP2 workstations. When we installed SBS they already had hosted email
> and a
> web site with a hosting company (which also has their name servers). At
> their
> insistence we left all that in place and pulled their email into exchange
> via
> POP3. They have a dynamic IP from their ISP (not the hosting company
> mentioned above) coming into their router. We haven't set up dynamic dns
> yet, so for RDP, they just point to the IP/remote. Crude I know, but it's
> worked ok since the IP hasn't been changing. We're ready now to set up A
> and
> MX records for their server, and move them to full SMTP email but they
> want
> to keep their web site with the hosting company.
> So my question is how to proceed with setting up dynamic DNS, etc. If I
> enroll with someone like tzo.com for managing my zones and dynamic DNS
> updates, would I transfer the name servers to tzo.com from the hosting
> company, and then how do I deal with the hosting company for the web site?
> I'm probably making this complicated when it doesn't need to be- any input
> would be helpful to clarify my thinking on this.
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