Re: Production Web Server Setup On Another Server

Glad to hear that you got it up and running.

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Claus
"Ron Brown" <rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Claus,

I have everything working now. It was an MX record issue on GoDaddy.
Thanks for all your help on this matter. It was much appreciated.

Ron
"Claus" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If I remember correctly, you have a A record called MAIL pointing to your
SBS IP and your MX record points to that A record - right? I'm talking
here about the DNS at GoDaddy.

You say that you can send to the internet but right below you tell us
that you can't. Which is it?
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Claus
"Ron Brown" <rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Claus,

I followed your instructions, and now when I type in the www address to
our domain,
I goes to the correct server and public IP address. Great :)

Now all of a sudden, I can no longer receive internet email from outside
our domain.
I can send to internal and internet domain addresses, but cannot receive
from the internet.

No additional changes were made except your last instructions. Below is
the output from
where I try send to an external domain.

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: FW: [TechRepublic] Are you an early adopter, or do you
wait and see?
Sent: 10/17/2007 1:16 AM

The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:

Ron Brown on 10/17/2007 1:16 AM
550 [PERMFAIL] destination not valid within DNS

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ron

"Claus" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, you need to make some changes. First, run the CEICW and change the
certificate to something like mail.yourdomain.org. Then go to GoDaddy
and change the WWW record to point to your other public IP. Then
instruct your users to use
http://mail.yourdomain.org/exchange to connect to OWA.

That's all you need to do.

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Claus
"Ron Brown" <rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply guys. Great info on what needs to be done.
Its a little overwhelming with three different ideas, but I will give
it
a shot here and I will keep you posted on the outcome.

At GoDaddy, I have a an a record for www, mail and smtp that points to
the ip
address of our SBS server box. The users use remote.domain.org and
www.domian.org/exchange
to reach those sites.

Thanks,
Ron

"Joe" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ron Brown wrote:
Hi Claus,

That was a massive typo. I have learned over the past year that a
web site should not
be setup on an SBS, so the answer is no...no website is there.

To answer you second question, it is a public IP address.

On GoDaddy, I created an A record (www) that pointed to the new
public IP address
on the Windows 2003 server, but that broke my OWA access in
exchange, so I have changed
it back an everything is back working correctly.

After a little rest, this is my overall goal.

I want our domain name to point to a separate server that will be
created using a different IP (public)
address. What needs to be installed and configured on the second
server? I am sure IIS and DNS will
be required. But when a public user types in our domain, what
changes needs to occur at GoDaddy to make
this happen and any other changes need on and if any on the SBS box?

OK, you can't have two hosts on the same domain, both named www. What
you describe will need the www A record (and the main domain.com
record, which has become customarily an alternative to
www.domain.com) to point to your new web server's public IP address,
and you will need an A record with some other name to point to the
SBS public address. If you have two separate IP addresses, you must
have at least two distinct hostnames.

If you already host email on the SBS, then you may already have an A
record for mail.domain.com or similar, which will do, or you can
create another such as sbs.domain.com. Whatever it is, it becomes the
new hostname for OWA and RWW access.

If you do host mail, and you already have an MX record pointing to a
mail.domain.com A record which points to the SBS public IP address,
that won't need to change. If you host mail and don't already have
both of those records, you will need to create them when you change
domain.com, which is the default mail server.

If you have the necessary DNS control, set the TTL (time to live) of
the records you need to change to something very short, and do it at
least the old TTL value in seconds before you make the change. That
way, all the DNS caches which may have held the old values will have
to discard them before the change happens. Set the TTLs back after
making the change. Not a problem for the web server, but important if
you do need to change the mail-related records.

As far as DNS for the new server goes, you really don't want to get
into hosting a public name server, and organising a geographically
separate backup server, for one server computer. The new server can
use a public DNS server for its own needs, or even its own router as
a caching server, as it doesn't have to know anything about the SBS
domain.









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